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Louder Than Words: Rock, Power and Politics: Social Justice

Social Justice

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Associated Search Terms

Citizenship
Civil rights
Human rights
Identify
Labor movements
Minorities
Patriotism
Political activity
Political aspects

Protest movements
Protest songs
Racism
Radicalsim
Segregation
Social aspects
Social conditions
Strikes
Working class
Work songs

Articles

These articles are available via the database Rock's Backpages. Access to articles may require you to be on-site at the Library & Archives.

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Theses/Dissertations

The influence of protest songs on the U.S. public : a Vietnam War perspective by Juan Rene Carrillo
ISBN: 899285749

Publication Date: 2014
A rhetorical and cultural analysis of the protest rock movement, 1964-1971 by B Keith Murphy
Call Number: ML3918.R63 M87 1988a

Publication Date: 1988
Working class heroes : counter-cultural politics and the singing hero in twentieth century America by Wayne Hampton
Call Number: ML3551 .H36 1983a

Publication Date: 1993
"It's bigger that hip hop" : popular rap music and the politics of the hip hop generation by Derek Evans
Call Number: ML3918.R37 .E93 2007a

Publication Date: 2007
People get ready : race, place and political identity in post-civil rights black popular music, 1965-1975 by Michael Stephen Hanson
Call Number: ML3918.P67 H36 2002a

Publication Date: 2002

Books

33 revolutions per minute : a history of protest songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day by Dorian Lynskey
Call Number: ML3780 .L96 2011
Popular Music and Human Rights by Ian Peddie
Call Number: ML3918.P67 P67 2011 v. 1
Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa by Ingrid Monson
Call Number: ML3508 .M66 2010
Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow by Karl Hagstrom Miller
Call Number: ML3551 .M55 2010
Ready for a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America by Mark Kurlansky
Call Number: E185.615 .K87 2013
Right to Rock: the Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race by Maureen Mahon
Call Number: ML3918.R63 M24 2004
Live Aid: World Wide Concert Book by Peter Hillmore; Bob Geldof (Introduction by)
Call Number: ML36.L58 H55 1985
Everybody Says Freedom by Pete Seeger; Robert S. Reiser; Jesse Jackson (Foreword by); Bob Reiser
Call Number: ML3551.5 .S44 1989
Hip Hop Movement: From R & B and the Civil Rights Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Generation by Reiland Rabaka
Call Number: ML3479 .R33 2013
Strike Songs of the Depression by Timothy P. Lynch
Call Number: ML3780 .L963 2007

Scores

Carry It On by Pete Seeger; Bob Reiser
Call Number: M1977.L3 C37 1985
Sing for Freedom: the Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs by Guy Carawan, Candie Carawan, editors
Call Number: M1977.C47 S56 2007
Songs of work and freedom
Call Number: M1630.18.F69 S66 1960

YouTube Videos

Archival Resources

Listed below are notable collections and items from the Rock Hall's Archives. You can find more by searching our catalog here.

Digital video (available onsite only):

American music masters: Sam Cooke. Julian Bond address. Peter Guralnick keynote.
American music masters: Woody Guthrie, part 5. Politics panel discussion.
American Musicological Society lecture: Mark Clague.
Immaculate funk, the Jerry Wexler story: Al Bell, part 1

Video

1968 with Tom Brokaw
Call Number: DVD VAR NINETE 2008
Breaking Rocks by Billy Bragg (director, participant)
Call Number: DVD BRAG BREA 2009
The Concert for Bangla Desh
Call Number: DVD HARR CONC-B 2005
Do the Right Thing by Spike Lee (produced, written and directed)
Call Number: BRD FIC DO 2009
The Gun Is Loaded by Lydia Lunch (written and performed)
Call Number: VID LUNC GUN 2011
Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement
Call Number: DVD VAR LET-FR 2009
Queen: Rock Montreal & Live Aid
Call Number: DVD QUEE ROCK 2007
Wattstax
Call Number: DVD VAR WATT 2004
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
Call Number: DVD GUTH-W WOOD 2007

Audio

Equal Rights by Peter Tosh
Call Number: CD TOSH EQUA 2011
We shall overcome: the complete Carnegie Hall concert by Pete Seeger
Call Number: CD SEEG-P WE-SH 1989
In square circle by Stevie Wonder
Call Number: CD WOND IN-SQ 1990

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