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American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2 - A Cultural History (Hardcover)
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American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2 - A Cultural History (Hardcover)
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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.
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