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33 Revolutions Per Minute
About this book
Why 33? Partly because that's the number of rotations performed by a vinyl album in one minute, and partly because it takes a lot of songs to tell a story which spans seven decades and five continents - to capture the colour and variety of this shape-shifting genre. This is not a list book, rather each of the 33 songs offers a way into a subject, an artist, an era or an idea.
The book feels vital, in both senses of the word: necessary and alive. It captures some of the energy that is generated when musicians take risks, and even when they fail, those endeavours leave the popular culture a little richer and more challenging. Contrary to the frequently voiced idea that pop and politics are awkward bedfellows, it argues that protest music
is pop, in all its blazing, cussed glory.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraphs
- Table of Contents
- Prologue
- List of Abbreviations
- PART ONE : 1939โ1964
- PART TWO : 1965โ1973
- PART THREE : 1973โ1977 : (CHILE, NIGERIA, JAMAICA)
- PART FOUR : 1977โ1987
- PART FIVE : 1989โ2008
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1 : A Short History of Protest Songs Before 1900
- Appendix 2 : Songs Mentioned in the Text
- Appendix 3 : One Hundred Songs not Mentioned in the Text
- Acknowledgements
- Picture Acknowledgements
- Index
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright