The companion website... includes audio and visual materials, bibliographies, discographies, filmographies, and links to websites for or Internet resources on historical and current social movements, as well as a supplementary chapter, "Peace symbols : posters in movements against the wars in Vietnam and Iraq." Website address: http://culturalpolitics.net/index/social_movements Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-478) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Singing civil rights : the freedom song tradition -- Dramatic resistance : theatrical politics from the Black Panthers to Black Lives Matter -- The poetical is the political : feminist poetry and the poetics of women's rights -- Revolutionary walls : Chicano/a/x murals, Chicano/a/x movements -- Old cowboys, new Indians : Hollywood frames the American Indian movement -- "We are [not] the world" : famine, apartheid, and the politics of rock music -- ACTing UP against AIDS : the (very) graphic arts in a moment of crisis -- Novels of environmental justice : toxic colonialism and the nature of culture -- Puppetry against puppet regimes : the "Battle of Seattle" and the global justice movement -- #Occupy all the arts : challenging Wall Street and economic inequality worldwide -- Conclusion : the cultural study of social movements.
Summary:
"This new edition of T. V. Reed's acclaimed classic offers accounts of ten key progressive movements in postwar America, from the African American struggle for civil rights beginning in the 1950s to Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter in the twenty-first century. Reed focuses on the artistic activities of these movements to frame progressive social change and its cultural legacies."--Back cover.
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