Songs of Social Protest (eBook)

lt;span style="font-weight:bold;">Aileen Dillane is a Lecturer in Music at the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick, Ireland.

Martin J Power is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

Eoin Devereux is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

Amanda Haynes is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

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 Māʻohi-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 (Tríona Ní Shíocháin) / 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: Lluís Llach and the Catalan Nova Cançó (Nuria Borrull) / Chapter 15: Making the Everyday Political: The Case of Janāpādā 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 Öğüt) / 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 (Thérèse 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 Chávez 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)