Whether accompanying a march, a sit-in, or a confrontation with police, songs and protest are inextricably linked. As a tool for political activism, the protest song spells out the issues at the heart of each cause. Over a surprisingly long history, it has been used to spread ideas, inspire political imagination, and motivate political action.
The protest song is - and has always been - a form of political oratory as vital to political representation as it is to performance. Investigating five centuries of English history, Our Subversive Voice establishes that the protest song is not merely the preserve of singer-songwriters; it is a mode of political communication that has been used to confront many systems of oppression across its many genres, from street ballads to art song, grime to hymns, and music hall to punk. Our Subversive Voice traces the history of the protest song, examines its rhetorical forms, and explores the conditions of its genesis. It recounts how these songs have addressed discrimination and inequality, exploitation and the environment, and immigration and identity, and how institutions and organizations have sought both to facilitate and to suppress them. Drawing on a large and diverse corpus of songwriters, this book argues that song does more than accompany protest: it choreographs and communicates it.
The protest song, Our Subversive Voice shows, is an enduring, affecting, and effective means of expression and an essential element in understanding the drive to create political change, in the past and for the future.
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Our Subversive Voice
The History and Politics of English Protest Songs, 1600–2020
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eBook - ePub
Our Subversive Voice
The History and Politics of English Protest Songs, 1600–2020
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Folk MusicTable of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Authors’ Note
- Introduction
- 1 Protest (and) Song’s Long History
- 2 The Protest Song as Politics and Political Theory
- 3 The Protest Song as Rhetoric and Oratory
- 4 Performing Protest and Claiming Representation
- 5 Producing the Protest Song
- 6 The Regulation and Repression of the Protest Song 203
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index of Songs
- General Index
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Yes, you can access Our Subversive Voice by John Street,Oskar Cox Jensen,Alan Finlayson,Angela McShane,Matthew Worley,Angela Mcshane in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Folk Music. We have over 1.5 million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.