Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century

by Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison

Book Overview

Building on their studies of sixties culture and theory of cognitive praxis, Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison examine the mobilization of cultural traditions and formulation of new collective identities through the music of activism. They combine a sophisticated theoretical argument with historical-empirical studies of nineteenth-century populists and twentieth-century labour and ethnic movements, focusing on the interrelations between music and social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521629667
• ISBN13: 9780521629669
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"