The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music

The major objective of this collection of twenty-eight essays is to analyze the trends, musical formats, and rhetorical devices used in popular music to illuminate the human condition. By comparing and contrasting musical offerings in a number of countries and in different contexts from the nineteenth century until today, TheRoutledge History of Social Protest in Popular Musicaims to be a probing introduction to the history of social protest music, ideal for popular music studies and history and sociology of music courses.

• | Author: Jonathan C. Friedman
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jun 28, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 430 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138216224
• | ISBN-13: 9781138216228