Brad Schreiber

Music Is Power: Popular Songs, Social Justice, and the Will to Change

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Music Is Power takes us on a guided tour through the past 100 years of politically-conscious popular music, from Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie to Green Day and NWA. Covering a wide variety of genres, including reggae, country, metal, and soul, Brad Schreiber tells fascinating stories about the origins and impact of dozens of world-changing songs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 147mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 274g
• ISBN-13: 9781978839021
• ISBN-10: 1978839022
• Artikelnr.: 67868126

Autorenporträt

BRAD SCHREIBER is an award-winning author, journalist, and screenwriter. His previous books include Death in Paradise, Becoming Jimi Hendrix, and Revolution's End. He has received fellowships and awards from the National Press Foundation, Edward Albee Foundation, International Book Awards, Independent Publisher Book Awards, and Los Angeles Press Club.  

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Musical Workers of the World Unite: Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie,
Pete Seeger
Chapter 2: There For More Than Fortune: Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan
Chapter 3: Caged Artists: Lesley Gore, Janis Ian, P.F. Sloan
Chapter 4: Parody and Poetry: Tom Lehrer, Peter, Paul and Mary, The
Smothers Brothers
Chapter 5: Psychedelicate Situation: Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd
Chapter 6: Reason and Blues: Marvin Gaye and The Temptations
Chapter 7: Say It Loud, We're Blocked but Proud: James Brown and Curtis
Mayfield
Chapter 8: Hard Rock Turns Metallic: The Who and Black Sabbath
Chapter 9: More Than a Working Class Hero: John Lennon
Chapter 10: Out of Place and In Your Face: The Dead Kennedys and The Sex
Pistols
Chapter 11: Word: Gil Scott Heron and Grandmaster Flash
Chapter 12: Global Music Consciousness: Bob Marley and Peter Gabriel
Chapter 13: Weird, Funny, Angry: Frank Zappa vs. Everybody
Chapter 14: Rap, Not Hip Hop: N.W.A. and Public Enemy
Chapter 15: Weapons of Mass Deconstruction: Dixie Chicks and Green Day
Epilogue
Bibliography