Music and Protest in 1968
Published on 25. April 2013
Book
Hardback
342 pages
978-1-107-00732-1 (ISBN)
Description
Music was integral to the profound cultural, social and political changes that swept the globe in 1968. This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the role that music played in the events of that year, which included protests against the ongoing Vietnam War, the May riots in France and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. From underground folk music in Japan to antiauthoritarian music in Scandinavia and Germany, Music and Protest in 1968 explores music's key role as a means of socio-political dissent not just in the US and the UK but in Asia, North and South America, Europe and Africa. Contributors extend the understanding of musical protest far beyond a narrow view of the 'protest song' to explore how politics and social protest played out in many genres, including experimental and avant-garde music, free jazz, rock, popular song, and film and theatre music.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
5 Printed music items; 5 Halftones, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
770 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-00732-1 (9781107007321)
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Persons
Beate Kutschke is Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at the Universitaet Leipzig. Her research focuses on music and protest around the year 1968 and she has published a monograph, a volume of collected papers and numerous articles on this topic. She is an internationally active researcher, who has presented papers around the world in German, English and French. She has taught in Europe, the United States (at Harvard University) and Asia (at the University of Hong Kong). A recipient of various scholarships including a three-year research grant by the German Research Foundation, she is currently writing a third monograph. Her interests range from Baroque music and music after 1945 to music and aesthetics, music and politics, and music and ethics. Barley Norton is a senior lecturer in ethnomusicology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has carried out extensive field research in Vietnam and other countries in Southeast Asia and is the author of Songs for the Spirits: Music and Mediums in Modern Vietnam (2009). As part of a Getty-funded research project on experimental music performance in Vietnam, he made the ethnographic film Hanoi Eclipse: The Music of Dai Lam Linh (2010), which has been screened at numerous international film festivals.
Content
Introduction Beate Kutschke; 1. Expressive revolutions: '1968' and music in The Netherlands Robert Adlington; 2. Music as plea for political action: the presence of musicians in Italian protest movements around 1968 Gianmario Borio; 3. 'This is my country': American popular music and political engagement in '1968' Sarah Hill; 4. Spontaneity and Black consciousness: South Africans imagining musical and political freedom in 1960s Europe Carol Muller; 5. Vietnamese popular song in '1968': war, protest and sentimentalism Barley Norton; 6. Music and protest in Japan: the rise of underground folk song in '1968' Toru Mitsui; 7. 'There is no revolution without song': 'new song' in Latin America Jan Fairley; 8. 'The power of music': antiauthoritarian music movements in Scandinavia in '1968' Alf Bjoernberg; 9. British rock: the short '1968', and the long Allan Moore; 10. '1968' and the experimental revolution in Britain Virginia Anderson; 11. Antiauthoritarian revolt by musical means on both sides of the Berlin Wall Beate Kutschke; 12. '1968' - the emergence of a protest culture in the popular music of the Eastern Bloc? Ruediger Ritter; 13. Gendering '1968': womanhood in model works of the People's Republic of China and movie musicals of Hong Kong Hon-Lun Yang; 14. A revolution in sheep's wool stockings: early music and '1968' Kailan Rubinoff; 15. Music and May 1968 in France: practices, roles, representations Eric Drott.