Title from cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-315), discography (pages 308-313), and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- From settlement to westward expansion: the origin of American protest songs -- Slave songs: the root of contemporary American popular protest music -- Abolitionists & soldiers: the rise of militant protest songs -- The industrial revolution: singing their way to unionism -- Labor & radical politics: the music of Ralph Chaplin, Joe Hill & the IWW -- Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger & the songs of patriotic radicalism -- Pete Seeger: the Johnny Appleseed of protest music -- Bob Dylan & the 1960s: the birth of protest rock -- Phil Ochs & the protest songs of American youth -- Rock'n'roll: a new vehicle for protest songs -- John Lennon: a minstrel of radical protest -- Protest traditions popularized.
Summary:
"Troubadours & Troublemakers is an examination of American protest music from the beginning of our republic to the rockers of the sixties. Our story begins with the protest music of the early American settlers and ends with the radical songs of hippies and yippies of the 1970s. In between we survey the music of slaves, abolitionists, soldiers, miners, unionists, wobblies, okies, and folkies. Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, John Lennon, rock'n'roll, and the music of Monterey Pop and Woodstock are all 'links in the chain' of the evolution of American protest music. Troubadours & Troublemakers reviews topical songs from the first American revolutionaries to the radical rockers of the late Twentieth Century. This 2nd Edition contains new and expanded chapters." -- back cover.
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