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33 revolutions per minute : a history of protest songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day by
A history of protest music embodied in 33 songs since the 1930s.
Everybody Says Freedom by
A history of the civil rights movement in songs, pictures, interviews, and recollections.
Freedom Sounds by
An examination of the impact of the civil rights movement and African independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, this text traces the complex relationships between music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of racial and economic issues.
Hip Hop Movement by
The soundtracks of the civil rights movement, 1945-1965; the black power movement, 1965-1980; and social visions of the hip hop movment, 1980-present.
I'll Take You There by
Recounts the life and achievements of the lead singer of the Staple Singers, revealing how her family fused diverse musical genres to transcend racism and oppression through song, and discussing her collaborations with fellow artists and her impact on civil rights culture.
Popular Music and Human Rights by 
Ready for a Brand New Beat by 
Right to Rock by
An account of the Black Rock Coalition, that began in New York in 1985, & its relation to the results of the civil rights era integration, to the larger questions of racialization in the music industry, & American society.
Segregating Sound by
Tin Pan Alley on tour : the Southern embrace of commercial music -- Making money making music : the education of Southern musicians in local markets -- Isolating folk, isolating songs : reimagining Southern music as folklore -- Southern musicians and the lure of New York City : representing the South from coon songs to the blues -- Talking machine world : discovering local music in the global phonograph industry -- Race records and old-time music : the creation of two marketing categories in the 1920s -- Black folk and hillbilly pop : industry enforcement of the musical color line -- Reimagining pop tunes as folk songs : the ascension of the folkloric paradigm -- Afterword : "All songs is folk songs"
Strike Songs of the Depression by
"Their sharpest statement" -- "Mill mothers lament" : Gastonia, North Carolina, 1929 -- "Dreadful memories" : Harlan County, Kentucky, 1931-32 -- "Sit down! Sit down!" : Flint, Michigan, 1936-37 -- "Better than a hundred speeches"
Equal Rights by 
In square circle by 
We shall overcome: the complete Carnegie Hall concert by
June 8, 1963
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1968 with Tom Brokaw
1968: in that single year, MLK and RFK were assassinated, Chicago rioted, Nixon triumphed, and Tet exploded. The top music acts were the Beatles, the Doors, Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye. Man circled the Moon. From Civil Rights to Vietnam, from rock & roll to rocket science, 1968 stands out as a concentrated dose of everything we think of as the Sixties.
Breaking rocks / Strummerville : the Joe Strummer Foundation for New Music
Story of Jail Guitar Doors, Billy Bragg's independent initiative which aims to provide instruments to those who are using music as a means of achieving the rehabilitation of prison inmates
The concert for Bangla Desh / directed by Saul Swimmer
The first benefit concert of its kind that brought together major artists collaborating for a common humanitarian cause, helping to generate millions of dollars for UNICEF and raise awareness for the organization around the world
Do the right thing / produced, written and directed by Spike Lee
The gun is loaded [videorecording] / written and performed by Lydia Lunch ; directed by Merrill Aldighieri, Joe Tripician
Through words and montage, Lunch issues a manifesto on the dark side of America at the end of the Reagan era
Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement
One of the most powerful movements in American history is told through the singers and songwriters who fought for change with their music.
Rock Montreal & Live Aid by
Rock Montreal recorded and filmed live at the Forum in Montreal, Nov. 1981 ; Live Aid concert recorded and filmed at Wembley Stadium, London, July 13, 1985
Wattstax / a Stax Films/Wolper Pictures production
Documents the concert that came to be known as 'the Black Woodstock,' held on the anniversary of 1965 Watts Riot, and had 100,000 in attendance
Woody Guthrie : ain't got no home / written, produced and directed by Peter Frumkin
Written by Woody Guthrie in 1940, "This land is your land" is one of the United States' most famous songs. Its Oklahoma-born author, Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie, was a complex, multi-talented man whose songs would come to exemplify that strain of American music. Yet his life was a tangle of unresolved contradictions: an indifferent guitar player yet an accomplished musician; three times married, but a perennially unfaithful husband; distant or doting father; acquainted with many yet well-known to few; a rambler who longed for home; the writer of as many as 1,400 songs, which he set to borrowed melodies. He recorded over 400 songs and enjoyed a great deal of success, but only became widely popular during the folk revival of the 1950s. This film chronicles the life and times of Woody Guthrie--populist poet, balladeer, rabble-rouser, and prototypical ramblin' man
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