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

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Reed, T. V. (Thomas Vernon), author.
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:
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Songs.
Music.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxvi, 496 pages) : illustrations
Edition:
Second edition.
Place of Publication:
Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
System Details:
text file
Summary:
" Now thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition of T. V. Reed's acclaimed work offers engaging 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."--Provided by publisher.
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:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 11, 2019).
ISBN:
9781452958644
1452958645
1517906210
9781517906214
9781517906221
1517906229
OCLC:
1081315392
Publisher Number:
10.5749/j.ctvb1hrcf
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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