Playing for Change

Robert Rosenthal is Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University. He has written widely on the use of music in social movements. Richard Flacks is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University of California–Santa Barbara. He is the author of Making History: The American Left and the American Mind and Beyond the Barricades.

Part I An Introduction to the Music-Movement Link; Chapter 1 You Can’t Scare Me, I’m Sticking to the Union; Part II The Meanings of Music; Chapter 2 Aretha Franklin Sings to Charlie Manson; Chapter 3 Context; Chapter 4 The Audience and Reception; Chapter 5 The Meanings of Music; Part III The Functions of Musicking for Social Movements; Chapter 6 Serving the Committed; Chapter 7 Education; Chapter 8 Conversion and Recruitment; Chapter 9 Mobilization; Chapter 10 How Musicking Harms Movements; Chapter 11 What Makes a Difference?; Chapter 12 What Is to Be Sung (or Played)?;