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Give Peace a Chant: Popular Music, Politics and Social Protest
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Give Peace a Chant: Popular Music, Politics and Social Protest
Current price: $109.99
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Give Peace a Chant: Popular Music, Politics and Social Protest
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The author argues that protest songs should be taken as a musical genre on their own. He points out that the general approach, when discussing these songs, has been so far that of either analyzing the lyrics or the social context. For some reason, the music itself has been often overlooked.
This book attempts to fill this gap. Its central thesis is that a complete overview of these repertoires demands a thorough interaction among contextual, lyrical, and musical elements together. To accomplish this, the author develops a novel model that systemizes and investigates musical repertoires. The model is then applied to four case studies, those, too, chosen among topicsthat are little (or not at all) frequented by scholars.