| Description |
x, 255 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Songs of persuasion and their entrepreneurs -- Christianity, Communism and commercialism: the song of persuasion revisited -- Urban folk music 'movement' research: value free? -- Religious roots of the song of persasion -- Class consciousness and the song of persuasion -- Songs of persuasion and skits of American Trotskyists -- Protest songs of the old and new left -- "Hey, hey Woody Guthrie I wrote you a song": the political side of Bob Dylan -- Kent State, Muskogee, and the Ghetto -- Protest songs: those on AM radio and those on the streets -- Rock in the southland -- "You know something's happening, but you don't know what it is do you Mister Jones?" -- Sociology of popular music: a review -- The battered and neglected orphan |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 226-233 |
| Subject |
Music -- Social aspects.
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Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Protest songs -- United States -- History and criticism.
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| LC no. |
84176092 |
| ISBN |
0879720360 |
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087972272X (paperback) |
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