Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century

Ron Eyerman; Andrew Jamison

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511628139

Building on their studies of sixties culture and theory of cognitive praxis, Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison examine the mobilization of cultural traditions and formulation of new collective identities through the music of activism. They combine a sophisticated theoretical argument with historical-empirical studies of nineteenth-century populists and twentieth-century labour and ethnic movements, focusing on the interrelations between music and social movements in the United States and the transfer of those experiences to Europe. Specific chapters examine folk and country music, black music, music of the 1960s movements, and music of the Swedish progressive movement. This highly readable book is among the first to link the political sociology of social movements to cultural theory.

"...a readable book that takes tradition seriously. A book for large undergraduate and graduate collections." Choice 10/98

"^Music and Movements^ is worthwhile reading for movement and popular culture scholars" American Journal of Sociology

"...an excellent overview of music in the service of political struggle." Gage Averill, Yearbook for Traditional Music

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Frontmatter
pp i-viii

Contents
pp ix-ix

Acknowledgments
pp x-xii

Introduction
pp 1-5

1 - On social movements and culture
pp 6-25

2 - Taking traditions seriously
pp 26-47

3 - Making an alternative popular culture: from populism to the popular front
pp 48-73

4 - The movements of black music: from the New Negro to civil rights
pp 74-105

5 - Politics and music in the 1960s
pp 106-139

6 - From the sixties to the nineties: the case of Sweden
pp 140-159

7 - Structures of feeling and cognitive praxis
pp 160-173

Notes
pp 174-178

Bibliography
pp 179-188

Index
pp 189-191

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