Protest Songs: Voices of Resistance and Possibility

The Maxwell Music Library is currently displaying a selection of books about protest songs. The exhibit, Protest Songs: Voices of Resistance and Possibility, includes the following books:

  • Singing for Freedom: The Hutchison Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reform
  • Pistol Packin’ Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong
  • Woody Guthrie, American Radical
  • To Everything There is a Season: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song
  • She’s a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll
  • Bruce Springsteen and the American Soul: Essays on the Songs and Influence of a Cultural Icon
  • Political Rock
  • The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music
  • Pulse of the People: Political Rap Music and Black Politics
  • The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest
  • Story Behind the Protest Song: a Reference Guide to the 50 Songs that Changed the 20th Century

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