Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century

by Ron Eyerman , Andrew Jamison

• ISBN13: 9780521629669
• ISBN10: 0521629667
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-02-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Music and song are central to modern culture--social movements to cultural change. Building on their studies of the sixties culture and the theory of cognitive praxis, the authors examine the mobilization of cultural traditions and the formation of new collective identities through the music of activism. Specific chapters examine American folk and country music, black music, music of the sixties, and the transfer of the American experience to Europe. This highly readable book is among the first to link social movement and cultural theory.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. On social movements and culture

2. Taking traditions seriously

3. Making an alternative popular culture: from populism to the popular front

4. The movements of black music: from the New Negro to civil rights

5. Politics and music in the 1960s

6. From the sixties to the nineties: the case of Sweden

7. Structures of feeling and cognitive praxis.