| TALKIN' 'BOUT A REVOLUTION Music and Social Change in America Dick Weissman New York: Backbeat Books, May 2010 |
Rating: 4.5 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-4234-4283-7 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-4234-4283-0 | 370pp. | SC/BWI | $24.99 | |
| Introduction | xi | |
| 1: | Songs of the Immigrants and Songs in American History and Politics | 1 |
| Arrival | 1 | |
| Songs of the Immigrants | 2 | |
| Songs About the Immigrants | 5 | |
| The Revolutionary War | 7 | |
| The Postcolonial Era | 9 | |
| The War of 1812 | 10 | |
| The Mexican War | 11 | |
| The Period Before the Civil War | 14 | |
| The Civil War | 5 | |
| The Spanish-American War | 16 | |
| World War I | 17 | |
| Other Early Political Songs | 19 | |
| 2: | Native American Music and Social Issues | 21 |
| The Inadvertent Host | 21 | |
| Conquest and Removal | 23 | |
| Nineteenth-Century Indian History | 28 | |
| Indians in the Twentieth Century | 33 | |
| Traditional Music | 39 | |
| Twentieth-Century Music | 40 | |
| Musical Fusions by Various Indian Artists | 51 | |
| White Comentary on Indians | 53 | |
| Indian Classical Music | 60 | |
| The Business of Indian Music and a Look at the Future | 61 | |
| 3: | African Americans | 63 |
| The Slave Trade | 64 | |
| Early Music | 64 | |
| The Development and Evolution of Slavery | 68 | |
| Religion | 68 | |
| The Civil War and Its Aftermath | 72 | |
| The Period of Maximum Oppression: 1880-1914 | 73 | |
| Secular Folk Music | 73 | |
| Minstrels, Ragtime, and Broadway | 75 | |
| Birth and Evolution of the Blues | 78 | |
| White Blues and White Audiences | 89 | |
| World War II to the Sixties | 94 | |
| Gospel Music | 95 | |
| Pop and R&B | 97 | |
| Motown and Stax Records | 98 | |
| Soul | 101 | |
| Jazz | 104 | |
| Rap | 109 | |
| Songs by White People About African Americans | 123 | |
| Race: An Ongoing Issue | 128 | |
| 4: | Women's Lives and Songs | 131 |
| The Role of Women | 131 | |
| World War I and Women's Suffrage | 135 | |
| Between the World Wars | 137 | |
| The Fities and Sixties | 141 | |
| The British Invasion, the 1650 Broadway Songwriters, and Motown | 143 | |
| Feminism and the Women's Movement | 145 | |
| Enduring Women's Issues, from the Seventies On | 153 | |
| Eighties and Nineties Ladies | 157 | |
| The Nineties and Beyond | 161 | |
| Women in Jazz | 167 | |
| Women's Roles in Music | 168 | |
| Songbook Analysis | 169 | |
| The Music Industry and Women's Music | 170 | |
| 5: | Protest Songs: Music as a Tool for Social Change | 171 |
| Joe Hill | 174 | |
| Songs of the Miners and Textile Workers | 175 | |
| Conservative Songs | 177 | |
| Music and the Communist Party | 178 | |
| The Radical Schools of the Thirties and Black Protest Music | 180 | |
| The Spanish Civil War and Protest Music | 181 | |
| Changes in American Life and the Union Movement | 182 | |
| The Almanac Singers | 184 | |
| Professional Protest | 185 | |
| The Hitler-Stalin Peace Pact | 186 | |
| Alan Lomax and Woody Guthrie | 189 | |
| Leadbelly | 193 | |
| Protest Music and Audiences | 196 | |
| World War II and the Almanacs | 197 | |
| Pete Seeger and People's Songs | 198 | |
| Josh White | 199 | |
| The Red Scares, the Election of 1948, and the End of People's Songs | 200 | |
| The Weavers | 202 | |
| The Effects of the Blacklist on Political Music | 204 | |
| Folk-Pop Crossover | 204 | |
| The Kingston Trio | 205 | |
| Music and the Civil Rights Movement | 207 | |
| Protest Singers of the Sixties | 209 | |
| Protest Music Today | 216 | |
| The Future of Protest Music | 225 | |
| Why Folk Music? Then and Now | 226 | |
| 6: | Spanish-Speaking Groups | 231 |
| The Southwest | 231 | |
| Immigration | 234 | |
| Political Militance | 236 | |
| Mexican American Music | 236 | |
| Evolution of Musical Style in Mexican American Music | 243 | |
| Mexicans in Anglo Music | 246 | |
| Pureto Rican Life and Music | 247 | |
| Cuba and the Exodus | 249 | |
| What's Going On: Chicano Consciousness and Music | 253 | |
| Ry Cooder | 262 | |
| 7: | Rock and Roll | 265 |
| Why Rock and Roll? | 265 | |
| Rock and Roll History | 266 | |
| "Rock Around the Clock" | 269 | |
| Elvis and Sun Records | 269 | |
| Rock and White Supremacy | 271 | |
| Cover Records | 273 | |
| "The Sound of Young America" | 275 | |
| Politics of the Sixties | 275 | |
| Peace, Love, Flowers, Drugs, and Music | 276 | |
| Peace, Love, and Disillusionment | 279 | |
| Disco | 279 | |
| Punk | 280 | |
| Hard Core | 282 | |
| Straight Edge vs. Punk's Underbelly | 283 | |
| Heavy Metal and Eighies Rock | 284 | |
| Grunge | 286 | |
| Jokers in the Deck | 288 | |
| Mainstream Artists | 289 | |
| Rage Against the Machine | 290 | |
| Rock and Roll and Race | 291 | |
| Women and Rock | 293 | |
| Rock and Roll Today | 294 | |
| 8: | The Music of Hate | 295 |
| Anti-African American Music | 295 | |
| Neo-Nazi Music | 297 | |
| 9: | The Two Gulf Wars, 9/11/2001, and Afghanistan | 301 |
| The Gulf War of 1991 | 301 | |
| 9/11 | 304 | |
| The Second Gulf War | 306 | |
| Iraq and Vietnam | 313 | |
| 10: | Music and Social Change | 315 |
| Omissions | 315 | |
| Music, Celebrity, and the Political Process | 316 | |
| Situations Where Music Had Influence | 318 | |
| Can Music Cause Social Change? | 321 | |
| Bibliography and Discography | 323 | |
| Index | 349 | |
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