Rhythm and Resistance: Explorations in the Political Uses of Popular Music

by Ray Pratt

This important new study of the political uses of popular music, from the era of slavery to the present traces the search for individual identity, freedom, and dignity as it has been expressed in popular music. Beginning with the spirituals of the slaves and the gospel of the black church and continuing through the blues, jazz forms, country, folk, and rock, Pratt presents popular music as part of a continuing effort, over two centuries, to create...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275926249
• ISBN13: 9780275926243
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.6"