Songs of Social Protest: International Perspectives

Contents

• Foreword Dave Randall /
• Introduction Get Up, Stand Up, Sing Out: The Contemporary Relevance of Protest Song (Aileen Dillane, Martin J. Power, Eoin Devereux and Amanda Haynes) / Protest and the African-American Experience /
• Chapter 1 : Social Protest and Resistance in African American Song from Slavery through the Civil Rights Movement (Robert W. Stephens and Mary Ellen Junda) /
• Chapter 2 : "You'll Never Hear Kumbaya the Same Way Again": The Diffusion and Defusion of a Freedom Song. (Robbie Lieberman) /
• Chapter 3 : Billie Holiday's Popular Front Songs of Protest (Jonathon Bakan) / Protest Genealogies /
• Chapter 4 : Songs of Social Protest, Then and Now (William Danaher) /
• Chapter 5 : Pete Seeger and the Politics of Participation (Rob Rosenthal) /
• Chapter 6 : The Radicalisation of Phil Ochs and the Radicalisation of the Sixties (Anthony Ashbolt) /
• Chapter 7 : Ewan McColl's Radio Ballads as Songs of Social Protest (Matthew Ord) /
• Chapter 8 : 'Message Songs are A Drag": Bob Dylan Protesting Too Much? (Joseph O'Connor) / Transforming Traditions /
• Chapter 9 : Expressions of Ma'ohi-ness in Contemporary Tahitian Popular Music (Geoffroy Colson) /
• Chapter 10 : Casteism and Cultural Capital: Social and Spiritual Reform through Kabir-Singing in North India (Vivek Virani) /
• Chapter 11 : Singing Against the Empire: Anti-structure and Anti-colonial Discourse in Nineteenth (Triona Ni Shiochain) / Freedom and Autonomy /
• Chapter 12 : "Organic Intellectuals": The Role of Protest Singers in the Overthrowing of the Portuguese Dictatorship, 1926-1974 (Isabel David) /
• Chapter 13 : Singing Protest in Post-war Italy: Fabrizio De Andre's Songs Within the Context of Italian Canzone d'Autore (Riccardo Orlandi) /
• Chapter 14 : The Trajectory of Protest Song from Dictatorship to Democracy and the Independence Movement in Catalonia: Lluis Llach and the Catalan Nova Canco (Nuria Borrull) /
• Chapter 15 : Making the Everyday Political: The Case of Janapada Geyalu as Protest Songs in the Telangana State Formation Movement, India (Rahul Sambaraju) / Politics, Participation and Activism in the Field /
• Chapter 16 : "Freedom is a Constant Struggle": Performance and Regeneration Amidst Social Movement Decline (Omotayo Jolaosho) /
• Chapter 17 : Cultural Production as a Political Act: Two Feminist Songs from Istanbul (Evrim Hikmet OEgut) /
• Chapter 18 : Hip Hop as Civil Society: Activism and Escapism in Uganda's Hip Hop Scene (Simran Singh-Grewal) / Semiotics, Mediation, and Manipulation /
• Chapter 19 : BOOM! Goes the Global Protest Movement: Heavy Metal, Protest, and the Televisual in System of a Down's "Boom!" Music Video (Neil King) /
• Chapter 20 : Pussy Riot: Performing "Punkness," or Taking the "Riot" out of "Riot Grrrl" (Julianne Graper) /
• Chapter 21 : Camp Fascism: The Tyranny of the Beat (Tiffany Naiman) /
• Chapter 22 : Protest Songs, Social Media, and the Exploitation of Syrian Children (Guilnard Moufarrej) / Protesting Bodies and Embodiment /
• Chapter 23 : "Bread and Roses": a Song of Social Protest or Hollowed out Resistance? (Gwen Moore) /
• Chapter 24 : "We Shall Overcome": Communal Participation and Entrainment in a Social Protest Song (Therese Smith) / Borderlands and Contested Spaces /
• Chapter 25 : The Language We Use: Representations of Morrissey as a Figure of Protest in Queer Latino Los Angeles (Melissa Hidalgo) /
• Chapter 26 : Rising from the Ashes of "The Grove": The Efficacy and Aesthetics of Protest Songs Represented in Ry Cooder's Chavez Ravine (Donnacha M. Toomey) /
• Chapter 27 : Mariem Hassan, Nubenegna Records and The Western Saharawi Struggle (Luis Giminez) / Critiquing Capitalism and the Neoliberal Tide /
• Chapter 28 : Against the Grain: Counter-Hegemonic Representations of Pre and Post 'Celtic-Tiger' Ireland in the 'Protest' Songs of Damien Dempsey (Aileen Dillane, Martin J. Power, Eoin Deverux and Amanda Haynes) /
• Chapter 29 : Bail Out - From Now to Never - A Rhetorical Analysis of Two Songs About Economic Crisis (Michael Hajimichael) /
• Chapter 30 : The Cacophony of Critique: New Model Army's Protest Against Neo-Liberal Critique (Tom Boland) / Ideology and the Performer /
• Chapter 31 : "Aesthetics of resistance": Billy Bragg, Ideology, and the Longevity of Song as Social Protest (Martin Power) /
• Chapter 32 : Straight to Hell: The Clash, Left Melancholia and the Politics of Redemption (Colin Coulter) /
• Chapter 33 : The Truth Must Be Told so I'll Tell It: Social Protest and the Folk Song in the Music of Christy Moore (Kieran Cashell)