Songs of Social Protest: International Perspectives (Protest, Media and Culture) - Hardcover

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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:

AestheticsAuthenticityAfrican American MusicAnti-capitalismCommunity & Collective MovementsCounter-hegemonic Discourses Critical PedagogyFolk MusicIdentityMemoryPerformancePopular 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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Aileen Dillane is a Lecturer in Music at the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick, Ireland.

Martin J. Power is associate professor of sociology at the University of Limerick.

Eoin Devereux is professor of sociology at the University of Limerick.

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

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Songs of Social Protest

International Perspectives

By Aileen Dillane, Martin J. Power, Eoin Devereux, Amanda Haynes

Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd.

Copyright © 2018 Aileen Dillane, Martin J. Power, Eoin Devereux and Amanda Haynes
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-78660-125-4

Contents

Foreword: What's Going On? And What Is To Be Done? Dave Randall, ix,
Introduction: Stand Up, Sing Out: The Contemporary Relevance of Protest Song Aileen Dillane, Martin J. Power, Amanda Haynes and Eoin Devereux, 1,
PART I: PROTEST AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, 11,
1 Social Protest and Resistance in African American Song: Traditions in Transformation Robert W. Stephens and Mary Ellen Junda, 13,
2 "You'll Never Hear Kumbaya the Same Way Again": The Diffusion and Defusion of a Freedom Song Robbie Lieberman, 28,
3 Billie Holiday's Popular Front Songs of Protest Jonathon Bakan, 44,
PART II: PROTEST GENEALOGIES, 61,
4 Songs of Social Protest, Then and Now William F. Danaher, 63,
5 Pete Seeger and the Politics of Participation Rob Rosenthal, 75,
6 The Radicalisation of Phil Ochs, the Radicalisation of the Sixties Anthony Ashbolt, 87,
7 Ewan MacColl's Radio Ballads as Songs of Social Protest Matthew Ord, 100,
8 'Message Songs are a Drag': Bob Dylan, Protesting too Much? Joseph O'Connor, 118,
PART III: TRANSFORMING TRADITIONS, 133,
9 Expressions of Maohi-ness in Contemporary Tahitian Popular Music Geoffroy Colson, 135,
10 Casteism and Cultural Capital: Social and Spiritual Reform through Kabir-Singing in North India Vivek Virani, 152,
11 Singing Against the Empire: Anti-structure and Anti-colonial Discourse in Nineteenth-century Irish Song Tríona Ní Shíocháin, 168,
PART IV: FREEDOM AND AUTONOMY, 185,
12 "Organic Intellectuals": The Role of Protest Singers in the Overthrowing of the Portuguese Dictatorship (1926–1974) Isabel David, 187,
13 Singing Protest in Post-war Italy: Fabrizio De André's Songs Within the Context of Italian Canzone d'Autore Riccardo Orlandi, 203,
14 The Trajectory of Protest Song from Dictatorship to Democracy and the Independence Movement in Catalonia: Lluís Llach and the Catalan Nova Cançó, 219,
15 Making the Everyday Political: The Case of Janapada Geyalu [Folk Songs] as Protest Songs in Telangana State Formation Movement in India Rahul Sambaraju, 234,
PART V: POLITICS, PARTICIPATION AND ACTIVISM IN THE FIELD, 253,
16 "Freedom is a Constant Struggle": Performance and Regeneration Amidst Social Movement Decline Omotayo Jolaosho, 255,
17 Cultural Production as a Political Act: Two Feminist Songs from Istanbul Evrim Hikmet Ögüt, 271,
18 Hip-Hop as Civil Society: Activism and Escapism in Uganda's Hip-Hop Scene Simran Singh-Grewal, 288,
PART VI: SEMIOTICS, MEDIATION AND MANIPULATION, 301,
19 BOOM! Goes the Global Protest Movement: Heavy Metal, Protest and the Televisual in System of a Down's "Boom!" Music Video Clare Neil King, 303,
20 Pussy Riot: Performing "Punkness," or Taking the "Riot" out of "Riot Grrrl" Julianne Graper, 320,
21 Camp Fascism: The Tyranny of the Beat Tiffany Naiman, 334,
22 Protest Songs, Social Media and the Exploitation of Syrian Children Guilnard Moufarrej, 354,
PART VII: PROTESTING BODIES AND EMBODIMENT, 371,
23 "Bread and Roses": A Song of Social Protest or Hollowed Out Resistance? Gwen Moore, 373,
24 "We Shall Overcome": Communal Participation and Entrainment in a Protest Song Thérèse Smith, 390,
PART VIII: BORDERLANDS AND CONTESTED SPACES, 405,
25 The Language We Use: Representations of Morrissey as a Figure of Protest in Queer Latino Los Angeles Melissa Hidalgo, 407,
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, 422,
27 Mariem Hassan, Nubenegna Records and the Western Saharawi Struggle Luis Giminez Amoros, 435,
PART IX: CRITIQUING CAPITALISM AND THE NEOLIBERAL TIDE, 453,
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 Devereux and Amanda Haynes, 455,
29 Bail Out-From Now to Never — A Rhetorical Analysis of Two Songs About Economic Crisis Mike Hajimichael, 473,
30 The Cacophony of Critique: New Model Army's Protest Against Neoliberal Critique Tom Boland, 489,
PART X: IDEOLOGY AND THE PERFORMER, 507,
31 "Aesthetics of Resistance": Billy Bragg, Ideology and the Longevity of Song as Social Protest Martin J. Power, 509,
32 Straight to Hell: The Clash and the Politics of Left Melancholia Colin Coulter, 525,
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, 541,
Discography/ Filmography, 561,
Bibliography, 571,
Index, 650,
Contributors, 670,


CHAPTER 1

Social Protest and Resistance in African American Song

Traditions in Transformation

Robert W. Stephens and Mary Ellen Junda


Enslaved and free Africans have been the most disempowered people in the United States, but that does not mean they bore their servitude and disadvantages without complaint. From the earliest days of the new Republic, African Americans — free and enslaved — protested their subjugation. The first public act of protest occurred in 1817 when 3,000 African American men attended a meeting at the Bethel African Methodist Episcopalian (A.M.E.) Church in Philadelphia. This meeting ultimately grew into a national movement that rejected the proposals for a return to Africa movement (Garrison 1968), laying the groundwork for African American protest and resistance movements that are still occurring today.

Music — in particular song — has always been a part of these movements. Today, protest in this community is still rooted in traditions of resistance and protest that date back to slavery (Southern 1997; Levine 2007; Epstein 1977). The songs from this period, generally referred to as "spirituals" or "slave songs," were embedded with coded meanings that contained strong elements of protest. In the early and mid-twentieth century a few courageous artists abandoned the encoding of protest and, by the 1960s, the great-grandchildren of the enslaved began to sing openly about injustice (Peretti 2013). Every song in African Americans' struggle for equality is a chronicle of their unique experience — from "Amelia's Song," carried from Sierra Leone to the Sea Islands of Georgia and passed orally through five generations (Stephens and Junda 2014), through spirituals and the stirring anthems of the civil rights movement.

An unbroken tradition of protest song has survived for centuries off the southeast coast of the United States maintained by the Gullah, descendants of enslaved West Africans brought to America for their rice-growing skills. The Gullah people have resided on the Sea Islands and coastal lowlands of South Carolina and Georgia for generations. Their isolated geographic location allowed them to retain more of their African cultural heritage than any other group of African Americans (Opala 2009).

This chapter draws a direct connection between the African American singing tradition preserved by the Gullah and the continuous use of music and song as instruments of resistance and protest from...

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