Songs of Social Protest: International Perspectives
Aileen Dillane · Martin J. Power · Eoin Devereux · Amanda Haynes
Sep 2018 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Ebook
512
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About this ebook
Songs of Social Protest is a comprehensive companion guide to music and social protest globally. Bringing together scholars from a range of fields, it explores a wide range of examples of, and contexts for, songs and their performance that have been deployed as part of local, regional and global social protest movements, both in historical and contemporary times. Topics covered include:
By placing historical approaches alongside cutting-edge ethnography, philosophical excursions alongside socio-political and economic perspectives, and cultural context alongside detailed, musicological, textual, and performance analysis, Songs of Social Protest offers a dynamic resource for scholars and students exploring song and singing as a form of protest.
- Aesthetics
- Authenticity
- African American Music
- Anti-capitalism
- Community & Collective Movements
- Counter-hegemonic Discourses
- Critical Pedagogy
- Folk Music
- Identity
- Memory
- Performance
- Popular Culture
By placing historical approaches alongside cutting-edge ethnography, philosophical excursions alongside socio-political and economic perspectives, and cultural context alongside detailed, musicological, textual, and performance analysis, Songs of Social Protest offers a dynamic resource for scholars and students exploring song and singing as a form of protest.
About the author
Martin J. Power is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Limerick, where he teaches courses on Inequality and Social Exclusion and the Sociology of the Welfare State.
Eoin Devereux is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Eoin’s books include ‘Understanding the Media 3rd edition (Sage, 2014) a textbook for undergraduate media students, and an edited collection called Media Studies: Key Issues and Debates (Sage, 2007). Both are published by Sage - London.
Amanda Haynes is a Senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Limerick. She is a two time recipient of the University of Limerick Teaching Excellence Award. Amanda’s research and publications centre on the analysis of discursive constructions as processes of exclusion and strategies for inclusion.
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