Taking its title from a Thomas McGrath poem, The Hunted Revolutionaries argues that as the pressure on US left-wing writers grew in the wake of increasing disenchantment with communism at the end of the 1930s, so writers developed more nuanced forms of resistance that reflected the central importance of race and ethnicity in American society. While challenging the notion that left-wing writing was formulaic and propagandistic, this study also complicates the idea of a monolithic left, suggesting instead that there were many lefts in existence and attempts to impose unitary views on writers...
Taking its title from a Thomas McGrath poem, The Hunted Revolutionaries argues that as the pressure on US left-wing writers grew in the wake o...
Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination and the right to self-legislation have long been at the forefront of popular music's approach to human rights. At a time of such uncertainty and confusion, with human rights currently being violated all over the world, a new and sustained examination of cultural responses to such issues is warranted. In this respect music, which is always produced in a social context, is an extremely useful medium; in...
Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, th...
Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination and the right to self-legislation have long been at the forefront of popular music's approach to human rights. In Eastern Europe, where states often tried to control music, the hundreds of thousands of Estonians who gathered in Tallinn between 1987 and 1991 are a part of the 'singing revolutions' that encouraged a sense of national consciousness, which had years earlier been crushed when Soviet policy...
Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, th...
This volume of essays brings together some of the best writing on music and protest from the last thirty years. Encompassing a variety of genres, from classical to many different kinds of popular music, the collection selects articles on a broad range of topics - including revolutions and uprisings, environmentalism, class, identity, struggles for self-determination as well as rights and the historical legacy of protest music - and from at least fifteen different countries, confirming the contention that music is one of the primary languages of protest. Written by leading researchers and...
This volume of essays brings together some of the best writing on music and protest from the last thirty years. Encompassing a variety of genres, from...
