Civil Rights Music
Reiland Rabaka [Rabaka, Reiland]
While there have been a number of studies that have explored African American "movement culture" and African American "movement politics," rarely has the mixture of black music and black politics or, rather, black music an as expression of black movement politics, been explored across several genres of African American "movement music," and certainly not with a central focus on the major soundtracks of the Civil Rights Movement: gospel, freedom songs, rhythm & blues, and rock & roll. Here the mixture of music and politics emerging out of the Civil Rights Movement is critically examined as an incredibly important site and source of spiritual rejuvenation, social organization, political education, and cultural transformation, not simply for the non-violent civil rights soldiers of the 1950s and 1960s, but for organic intellectual-artist-activists deeply committed to continuing the core ideals and ethos of the Civil Rights Movement in the twenty-first century. Civil Rights...
Năm:
2012
Nhà xuát bản:
Lexington Books
Ngôn ngữ:
english
ISBN 10:
1498531784
ISBN 13:
9781498531788
File:
EPUB, 970 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2012