Music and Social Movements Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century

Music and Social MovementsMobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century

Social movements literature meets cultural theory in study of music and song of activism.

Ron Eyerman (Author), Andrew Jamison (Author)

9780521629669, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 1998

204 pages
22.9 x 15.5 x 1.4 cm, 0.335 kg

"...an excellent overview of music in the service of political struggle." Gage Averill, Yearbook for Traditional Music

Building on their studies of sixties culture and theory of cognitive praxis, Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison examine the mobilization of cultural traditions and formulation of new collective identities through the music of activism. They combine a sophisticated theoretical argument with historical-empirical studies of nineteenth-century populists and twentieth-century labour and ethnic movements, focusing on the interrelations between music and social movements in the United States and the transfer of those experiences to Europe. Specific chapters examine folk and country music, black music, music of the 1960s movements, and music of the Swedish progressive movement. This highly readable book is among the first to link the political sociology of social movements to cultural theory.

Introduction1. On social movements and culture2. Taking traditions seriously3. Making an alternative popular culture: from populism to the popular front4. The movements of black music: from the New Negro to civil rights5. Politics and music in the 1960s6. From the sixties to the nineties: the case of Sweden7. Structures of feeling and cognitive praxis.

Subject Areas: Sociology & anthropology [JH]