Introduction; 1. On social movements and culture; 2. Taking traditions seriously; 3. Making an alternative popular culture: from populism to the popular front; 4. The movements of black music: from the New Negro to civil rights; 5. Politics and music in the 1960s; 6. From the sixties to the nineties: the case of Sweden; 7. Structures of feeling and cognitive praxis.
Social movements literature meets cultural theory in study of music and song of activism.
"...a readable book that takes tradition seriously. A book for large undergraduate and graduate collections." Choice 10/98 "^Music and Movements^ is worthwhile reading for movement and popular culture scholars" American Journal of Sociology "...an excellent overview of music in the service of political struggle." Gage Averill, Yearbook for Traditional Music
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