The art of protest : culture and activism from the civil rights movement to the present / T.V. Reed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reed, T. V. (Thomas Vernon)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radicalism--United States.

Radicalism.

Protest movements--United States.

Protest movements.

Radicalism--Songs and music.

United States.

Social movements in art.

Social movements in literature.

Radicalism in art.

Radicalism in literature.

Radicalism--Songs and music--History and criticism.

Genre:

Songs.

Music.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 496 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]

Summary:

"This new edition of T. V. Reed's acclaimed classic offers accounts of ten key progressive movements in postwar America, from the African American struggle for civil rights beginning in the 1950s to Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter in the twenty-first century. Reed focuses on the artistic activities of these movements to frame progressive social change and its cultural legacies."--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction

Singing civil rights : the freedom song tradition

Dramatic resistance : theatrical politics from the Black Panthers to Black Lives Matter

The poetical is the political : feminist poetry and the poetics of women's rights

Revolutionary walls : Chicano/a/x murals, Chicano/a/x movements

Old cowboys, new Indians : Hollywood frames the American Indian movement

"We are [not] the world" : famine, apartheid, and the politics of rock music

ACTing UP against AIDS : the (very) graphic arts in a moment of crisis

Novels of environmental justice : toxic colonialism and the nature of culture

Puppetry against puppet regimes : the "Battle of Seattle" and the global justice movement

#Occupy all the arts : challenging Wall Street and economic inequality worldwide

Conclusion : the cultural study of social movements.

Notes:

The companion website... includes audio and visual materials, bibliographies, discographies, filmographies, and links to websites for or Internet resources on historical and current social movements, as well as a supplementary chapter, "Peace symbols : posters in movements against the wars in Vietnam and Iraq." Website address: http://culturalpolitics.net/index/social_movements

Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-478) and index.

ISBN:

9781517906214

1517906210

OCLC:

1083144831