Songs of Social Protest

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:

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.

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 M 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 (Trí ona Ní Shí ochá in) / 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 André'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: Lluí s Llach and the Catalan Nova Canç ó (Nuria Borrull) / Chapter 15: Making the Everyday Political: The Case of Jan p d 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 Ö ü t) / 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 (Thé rè se 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 Chá vez 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)