Reds, whites, and blues social movements, folk music, and race in the United States

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1. Verfasser: Roy, William G. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press ©2010
Schriftenreihe:Princeton studies in cultural sociology
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Social movements, music, and race -- Music and boundaries : race and folk -- The original folk project -- White and black reds : building an infrastructure -- Movement entrepreneurs and activists -- Organizing music : the fruits of entrepreneurship -- The Highlander School -- Music at the heart of the quintessential social movement -- A movement splintered -- How social movements do culture
Music, and folk music in particular, is often embraced as a form of political expression, a vehicle for bridging or reinforcing social boundaries, and a valuable tool for movements reconfiguring the social landscape. Reds, Whites, and Blues examines the political force of folk music, not through the meaning of its lyrics, but through the concrete social activities that make up movements. Drawing from rich archival material, William Roy shows that the People's Songs movement of the 1930s and 40s, and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s implemented folk music's social relationships--specifically between those who sang and those who listened--in different ways, achieving different outcomes. Roy explores how the People's Songsters envisioned uniting people in song, but made little headway beyond leftist activists. In contrast, the Civil Rights Movement successfully integrated music into collective action, and used music on the picket lines, at sit-ins, on freedom rides, and in jails. Roy considers how the movement's Freedom Songs never gained commercial success, yet contributed to the wider achievements of the Civil Rights struggle. Roy also traces the history of folk music, revealing the complex debates surrounding who or what qualified as "folk" and how the music's status as racially inclusive was not always a given. --From publisher's description
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 286 pages, [8] pages of plates)
ISBN:0691143633
1282692186
140083516X
9780691143637
9781282692183
9781400835164