Product Description: The activist anthem “We Shall Not Be Moved” expresses resolve in the face of adversity; it helps members of social movements persevere in their struggles to build a better world. The exact origins of the song are unknown, but it appears to have begun as a Protestant revival song sung by rural whites and African slaves in the southeastern United States in the early nineteenth century...read more

Product Description: Wars have dominated the history of the United States since its founding, but there has also been a long history of antiwar activity. Peace songs have emerged out of every military conflict involving the United States. "Singing for Peace" vividly portrays this rich antiwar history, beginning in the eighteenth century and continuing into the twenty-first...read more

Product Description: It was sung at Ronald Reagan's funeral, and adopted with new lyrics by labor radicals. John Updike quoted it in the title of one of his novels, and George W. Bush had it performed at the memorial service in the National Cathedral for victims of September 11, 2001...read more

Product Description: The Depression-era politics of strikers' songs that called for solidarity and action

Product Description: This definitive story of American folk music focuses on how a minority music genre suddenly became the emergent voice of a generation at the end of the Eisenhower years. From Kingston Trio’s "Tom Dooley" in 1958 to Bob Dylan’s electric performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, folk influenced American culture and eventually became absorbed into popular music...read more

Looks at the early works of Bob Dylan, which were used as protest songs, and how he moved away from politics in his music with his later works.

A portrait of the song 'Strange Fruit,' written by Abel Meeropol and describing a racial lynching in the South, which was recorded by legendary singer Billie Holiday in 1939, examines the influence of the song on the growth of the Civil Rights Movement and traces the lives of singer Billie Holiday and songwriter Abel Meeropol. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: Meet Aunt Molly Jackson (1880-1960), one of American folklore's most fascinating characters. A coal miner's daughter, she grew up in eastern Kentucky, married a miner, and became a midwife, labor activist, and songwriter. Fusing hard experience with rich Appalachian musical tradition, her songs became weapons of struggle...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Traces the history of American protest songs, looks at songwriters from four different eras, and discusses the problems fame brings

Product Description: light shelf wear. Otherwise flawless.