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Author Spener, David, 1961- author

Title We shall not be moved/No nos moverán : biography of a song of struggle / David Spener
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (x, 198 pages))
Contents A song, socialism, and the 1973 military coup in Chile -- "I shall not be moved" in the U.S. South : blacks and whites, slavery and spirituals -- From worship to work : a spiritual is adopted by the U.S. labor movement and the left -- From union song to freedom song : civil rights activists sing an old tune for a new cause -- From English in the U.S. South to Spanish in the U.S. Southwest : "We shall not be moved" becomes "No nos moverâan" -- Across the Atlantic to Spain -- Social movement : a song's journey across time and space -- Translation and transcendence in the travels of a song -- Conclusion : an internationalist culture of the singing left in the twentieth century
Summary We Shall Not Be Moved: The Trail Blazed by a Song from the U.S. South to Spain and South America details the history of "We Shall Not Be Moved" from its birth as a slave spiritual in the U.S. South and its subsequent adoption as a standard hymn by the U.S. labor, civil rights, and farmworker movements, to its singing in the student movement opposing the Franco dictatorship in Spain in the 1960s, and finally to its arrival in the South American country of Chile during its experiment with democratic socialism in the early 1970s. The book outlines the role the song has played in each of the movements in which it has been sung and analyzes its dissemination, function, and meaning through a number of different sociological and anthropological lenses
Analysis music
anthropology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-189) and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT We shall not be moved. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016006284
We shall not be moved. nli
Subject Protest songs -- Spain -- History and criticism
Protest songs -- United States -- History and criticism
Protest songs -- Latin America -- History and criticism
Cultural studies.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
MUSIC -- Lyrics.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
Protest songs
Protest songs -- United States -- History and criticism.
Protest songs -- Spain -- History and criticism.
Protest songs -- Latin America -- History and criticism.
Latin America
Spain
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020719508
ISBN 9781439912997
1439912998
1439912971
143991298X
9781439912973
9781439912980
Other Titles No nos moverán