Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century

Cambridge Cultural Social Studies

by Ron Eyerman, Andrew Jamison

Music and song are central to modern culture--social movements to cultural change. Building on their studies of the sixties culture and the theory of cognitive praxis, the authors examine the mobilization of cultural traditions and the formation of new collective identities through the music of activism. Specific chapters examine American folk and country music, black music, music of the sixties, and the transfer of the American experience to Europe. This highly readable book is among the first to link social movement and cultural theory.

Genres: Music, Nonfiction, Academic

204 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 1998

Reviews

[Nina Gordon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Had to read this for class. It's dense reading but interesting.

[Starbubbles · Rating 3 out of 5]

i basically read a third of it. will eventually come back to it and read the rest though. but regardless, totally counting this one as read. fairly decent read. hard to get through the theories on social movements, and the music aspect was only used as a secondary topic, but still okay. you didn't need to know music theory to understand what was going on, but it would have been nice to have some so i could have better understood what a "traditional" rythm, tempo, etc. was. but it wouldn't have been useful information to those you can't read music, so i get why it was left out. but there was music history and what-not, so it's not like music was left out completely.

[Luke · Rating 4 out of 5]

Using as a lens to view worship and the social movement par excellence that is the church.