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The Resounding Revolution : Freedom Song After 1968 / Stephen Stacks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stacks, Stephen.
- Series:
- Music in American Life Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil rights movements--United States.
- Civil rights movements.
- Music--Political aspects--United States.
- Music.
- Black people--United States--Music--History and criticism.
- Black people.
- African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
- African Americans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Far from being bounded by the timeframe of the 1960s, freedom song continues to evolve as a tool both of historical memory and of present activism. Stephen Stacks looks at how post-1968 freedom song helps us negotiate our present relationship to the era while at the same time sustaining the contemporary struggle inspired by it. Stacks's analysis shifts the focus of attention from genre--freedom song--to process and practice--freedom singing. As he shows, freedom singing after 1968 generates multilayered meanings. It can reinforce, or resist, consensus memories or dominant narratives. Stacks illuminates freedom singing's diversity by examining it in three contexts: performance, protest, and within documentary sound recording/film. Insightful and vividly detailed, The Resounding Revolution examines sixty years of Black music to challenge and reshape the entrenched story of the Civil Rights Movement"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Freedom Song after 1968
- Memory, History, and Freedom Song
- From Freedom Song to Freedom Singing
- Bernice Johnson Reagon, Freedom Singing, and Musical Coalition Politics
- Warren County, Environmental Justice, and Freedom Singing in Protest
- Documentary Media, Freedom Singing, and the Construction of Sonic Blackness
- Conclusion. Freedom Singing into the Future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780252047909
- 0252047907
- OCLC:
- 1514635620
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