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Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution Music and Social Change in America

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ISBN-10: 1423442830

ISBN-13: 9781423442837

Edition: 2010

Authors: Dick Weissman

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Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution is a comprehensive guide to the relationship between American music and politics. Music expert Dick Weissman opens with the dawn of American history, then moves to the book's key focus: 20th-century music - songs by and about Native Americans, African-Americans, women, Spanish-speaking groups, and more. Unprecedented in its approach, the book offers a multidisciplinary discussion that is broad and diverse, and illuminates how social events impact music as well as how music impacts social events. Weissman delves deep, covering everything from current Native American music to "music of hate" - racist and neo-Nazi music - to the music of the Gulf wars, union songs,…    
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Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Publication date: 5/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 386
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

David Smith has had 30 years experience in the Electronics Industry. Before arriving at MMU he worked as an Electronics Design Engineer for ICL and Marconi. His teaching interests are focused on enabling Design and Technology students to implement microcontroller designs into their projects.

Introduction
Songs of the Immigrants and Songs in American History and Politics
Arrival
Songs of the Immigrants
Songs About the Immigrants
The Revolutionary War
The Postcolonial Era
The War of 1812
The Mexican War
The Period Before the Civil War
The Civil War
The Spanish-American War
World War I
Other Early Political Songs
Native American Music and Social Issues
The Inadvertent Host
Conquest and Removal
Nineteenth-Century Indian History
Indians in the Twentieth Century
Traditional Music
Twentieth-Century Music
Musical Fusions by Various Indian Artists
White Commentary on Indians
Indian Classical Music
The Business of Indian Music and a Look at the Future
African Americans
The Slave Trade
Early Music
The Development and Evolution of Slavery
Religion
The Civil War and Its Aftermath
The Period of Maximum Oppression: 1880-1914
Secular Folk Music
Minstrels, Ragtime, and Broadway
Birth and Evolution of the Blues
White Blues and White Audiences
World War II to the Sixties
Gospel Music
Pop and R&B
Motown and Stax Records
Soul
Jazz
Rap
Songs by White People About African Americans
Race: An Ongoing Issue
Women's Lives and Songs
The Role of Women
World War I and Women's Suffrage
Between the World Wars
The Fifties and Sixties
The British Invasion, the 1650 Broadway Songwriters, and Motown
Feminism and the Women's Movement
Enduring Women's Issues, from the Seventies On
Eighties and Nineties Ladies
The Nineties and Beyond
Women in Jazz
Women's Roles in Music
Songbook Analysis
The Music Industry and Women's Music
Protest Songs: Music as a Tool for Social Change
Joe Hill
Songs of the Miners and Textile Workers
Conservative Songs
Music and the Communist Party
The Radical Schools of the Thirties and Black Protest Music
The Spanish Civil War and Protest Music
Changes in American Life and the Union Movement
The Almanac Singers
Professional Protest
The Hitler-Stalin Peace Pact
Alan Lomax and Woody Guthrie
Leadbelly
Protest Music and Audiences
World War II and the Almanacs
Pete Seeger and People's Songs
Josh White
The Red Scares, the Election of 1948, and the End of People's Songs
The Weavers
The Effects of the Blacklist on Political Music
Folk-Pop Crossover
The Kingston Trio
Music and the Civil Rights Movement
Protest Singers of the Sixties
Protest Music Today
The Future of Protest Music
Why Folk Music? Then and Now
Spanish-Speaking Groups
The Southwest
Immigration
Political Militance
Mexican American Music
Evolution of Musical Style in Mexican American Music
Mexicans in Anglo Music
Puerto Rican Life and Music
Cuba and the Exodus
What's Going On: Chicano Consciousness and Music
Ry Cooder
Rock and Roll
Why Rock and Roll?
Rock and Roll History
"Rock Around the Clock"
Elvis and Sun Records
Rock and White Supremacy
Cover Records
"The Sound of Young America"
Politics of the Sixties
Peace, Love, Flowers, Drugs, and Music
Peace, Love, and Disillusionment
Disco
Punk
Hard Core
Straight Edge vs. Punk's Underbelly
Heavy Metal and Eighties Rock
Grunge
Jokers in the Deck
Mainstream Artists
Rage Against the Machine
Rock and Roll and Race
Women and Rock
Rock and Roll Today
The Music of Hate
Anti-African American Music
Neo-Nazi Music
The Two Gulf Wars, 9/11/2001, and Afghanistan
The Gulf War of 1991
9/11
The Second Gulf War
Iraq and Vietnam
Music and Social Change
Omissions
Music, Celebrity, and the Political Process
Situations Where Music Had Influence
Can Music Cause Social Change?
Bibliography and Discography
Index