American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2

A Cultural History
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-316-51433-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 234 mm x 161 mm, Gewicht: 886 g

Long before anyone ever heard of 'protest music', people in America were singing about their struggles. They sang for justice and fairness, food and shelter, and equality and freedom; they sang to be acknowledged. Sometimes they also sang to oppress. This book uncovers the history of these people and their songs, from the moment Columbus made fateful landfall to the start of the Second World War, when 'protest music' emerged as an identifiable brand. Cutting across musical genres, Will Kaufman recovers the passionate voices of America itself. We encounter songs of the mainland and the conquered territories of Hawai'i, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines; we hear Indigenous songs, immigrant songs and Klan songs, minstrel songs and symphonies, songs of the heard and the unheard, songs of the celebrated and the anonymous, of the righteous and the despicable. This magisterial book shows that all these songs are woven into the very fabric of American history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaufman, Will

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: the work of recovery; 1. Broken spears and songs of sorrow; 2. Good newes from Virginia; 3. A capital chop; 4. If I had but a small loaf of bread; 5. Where today are the Pequot?; 6. There is a fountain filled with blood; 7. A tragedy that beggared the Greek; 8. Muscle, blood, and steel; 9. Rule Anglo-Saxia; 10. The hand that feeds you; 11. We are many; 12. 100% American; 13. We're up against it now; 14. The panic is on; 15. To thee we sing; Conclusion: whose land?

Über Autor(innen)

Kaufman, Will
Will Kaufman is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, England. He is the author of Woody Guthrie, American Radical (2011), Woody Guthrie's Modern World Blues (2017), and Mapping Woody Guthrie (2019). His other books include The Comedian as Confidence Man (1997), The Civil War in American Culture (2006), American Culture in the 1970s (2009), and co-authored with Ronald D. Cohen, Singing for Peace: Antiwar Songs in American History (2015).