| Description |
xxiv, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Ashgate popular and folk music series |
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Ashgate popular and folk music series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-221) and index. |
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Includes discography. |
| Contents |
Politics and the parameters of protest -- Rock protest songs : so many and so few / Deena Weinstein -- The decline and rebirth of folk-protest music / Jerry Rodnitsky -- Available rebels and folk authenticities : Michelle Shocked and Billy Bragg / Mark Willhardt -- The pop star as politician : from Belafonte to Bono, from creativity to conscience / John Street -- Monophony or polyphony? -- The future is history : hip-hop in the aftermath of (post)modernity / Russell A. Potter -- Everyday people : popular music, race and the articulation and formation of class identity in the United States / James Smethurst -- Gender as anomaly : women in rap / Gail Hilson Woldu -- The problems of place -- Protest music as 'ego-enhancement' : reggae music, the Rastafarian movement and the re-examination of race and identity in Jamaica / Stephen A. King -- 'We have survived' : popular music as representation of Australian Aboriginal cultural loss and reclamation / Peter Dunbar-Hall -- The bleak country? : the black country and the rhetoric of escape / Ian Peddie -- The paradox of anti-social protest -- Communities of resistance : heavy metal as a reinvention of social technology / Sean K. Kelly -- The handmade tale : cassette-tapes, authorship, and the privatization of the Pacific Northwest independent music scene / Kathleen McConnell -- Gothic music and the decadent individual / Kimberly Jackson -- Straight, narrow and dull : the failure of protest in straight edge / Steven Hamelman. |
| Summary |
The contributors in this volume examine the various ways in which popular music has been deployed as anti-establishment and how such opposition both influences and responds to the music produced. |
| Subject |
Popular music -- Social aspects.
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Popular music -- Political aspects.
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Protest songs -- History and criticism.
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Populaire muziek.
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Sociaal protest.
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Subcultuur.
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Popular music -- Political aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01071452
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Popular music -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01071460
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Protest songs. (OCoLC)fst01079869
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Sociaal protest.
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Populaire muziek.
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Subcultuur.
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Popmusik. (DE-588c)4046781-8
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Sport. (DE-588c)4056366-2
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Peddie, Ian.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Resisting muse. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2006 (OCoLC)639399068 |
| ISBN |
0754651134 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9780754651130 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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0754651142 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780754651147 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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