Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism

583 Pages·2013·3.678 MB·English

by  Eunice Rojas and Lindsay Michie

Sounds of Resistance
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Sounds of Resistance : The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism, edited by Eunice Rojas, and Lindsay Michie,
Sounds of
Resistance
The Role of Music in
Multicultural Activism
Volume 1: Activism in the United States
Eunice Rojas and Lindsay Michie, Editors
Sounds of Resistance : The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism, edited by Eunice Rojas, and Lindsay Michie,
Copyright 2013 by Eunice Rojas and Lindsay Michie
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Sounds of resistance : the role of music in multicultural activism / Eunice Rojas and Lindsay Michie,
editors.
volumes cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-313-39805-6 (hardcopy : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-313-39806-3 (ebook) 1. Music —
Political aspects. 2. Protest songs — History and criticism. 3. Political ballads and songs —
History and criticism. I. Rojas, Eunice, editor. II. Eades, Lindsay Michie, editor.
ML3916.S69 2013
781.5'92—dc23 2013006762
ISBN: 978-0-313-39805-6
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Volume 1: Activism in the United States
Introduction to Volume 1 xi
Lindsay Michie
1. “Toward a Truer World”: Overt and Implied Messages of
Resistance from Slave Songs to Rap 1
Ian Michie
2. Red Power: American Indian Activism through Powwow Music
and Dance 21
Paula Conlon and Paul McKenzie-Jones
3. Song and Vision in the U.S. Labor Movement 47
Victor Wallis
4. Green Pastures of Plenty: Woody Guthrie and Eco-Citizenship 65
Matthew D. Sutton
5. Urban Beats, Religious Beliefs, and Interconnected Streets in
Indigenous Hip-Hop: North American Indian Infl uences in
African American Music 85
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9. Resistance and Relapse: The Politics of Drug Discourse in
Rap Music 183
Michael P. Jeffries
10. You’re Equal but Different: Women and the Music of Cultural
Resistance 203
Charles Walton
11. The New Political Rhetoric of Hip-Hop Music in the Obama Era 229
Craig A. Meyer and Todd D. Snyder
Volume 2: International Activism
Introduction to Volume 2 xi
Eunice Rojas
12. “The Toyi-toyi Was Our Weapon”: The Role of Music in the
Struggle against Apartheid in South Africa 251
Lindsay Michie and Vangeli Gamede
13. No Future: Punk Music in Postindustrial Britain and the
United States 271
Brian E. Crim
14. These Rocks Will Roll: Songs and Resistance in
Communist Poland 291
Marek Payerhin
15. Return of the Vagabond: Cui Jian and China’s Democracy
Movement 311
Carlos Rojas
16. Afrobeat: The Music of Fela Kuti 329
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20. Pulling at the Stake of Oppression: Lluís Llach’s Catalan
Nationalism from Dictatorship to Democracy 423
Eunice Rojas
21. Reading and Sounding Protest: Musical and Lyrical Markers in
Brazilian T ropicália and C anção Engajada 447
Chris Stover
22. Hidden Histories of Resistance in Mexico’s Son Jarocho 473
Alexandro D. Hernández
23. “Spitting Phlegm at the System”: The Changing Voices of
Anticolonial Puerto Rican Protest Music 491
Eunice Rojas
Index 513
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Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the following people for their assistance in the
production of this series: Marcus Sandidge and John Parker for help with
research; Dan Eades for providing useful tips on editing a series; Brian
and Julia Crim for their frequent and welcome distractions from the edit-
ing process; Emily Birch for initiating this project and guiding us so well
through the fi rst phase; all of our contributors for their enthusiasm, hard
work, and patience with the progress and organization of their chapters;
and most especially our editor Kim Kennedy White for her constant help
and much appreciated advice through each stage of editing and writing
these two volumes.
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