The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle

by T.V. Reed

Book Overview

Imagine the civil rights movement without freedom songs and the politics of women's movements without poetry. Or, more difficult yet, imagine an America unaffected by the cultural expressions and forms of the twentieth-century social movements that have shaped our nation. The first broad overview of social movements and the distinctive cultural forms that express and helped shape them, The Art of Protest shows the vital importance of these movements...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816637717
• ISBN13: 9780816637713
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"