{"product_id":"9780228023722-our-subversive-voice","title":"Our Subversive Voice","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe History and Politics of English Protest Songs, 1600–2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur Subversive Voice\u003c\/em\u003e establishes the protest song as a mode of political communication. Covering five centuries in England’s history, from street ballads and art song to grime, hymns, music hall, and punk, this book explores the causes that protest songs adopt, the conditions that give rise to them, and the institutions that have suppressed them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether accompanying a march, a sit-in, or a confrontation with police, songs and protest are inextricably linked. As a tool for political activism, the protest song spells out the issues at the heart of each cause. Over a surprisingly long history, it has been used to spread ideas, inspire political imagination, and motivate political action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe protest song is - and has always been - a form of political oratory as vital to political representation as it is to performance. Investigating five centuries of English history, Our Subversive Voice establishes that the protest song is not merely the preserve of singer-songwriters; it is a mode of political communication that has been used to confront many systems of oppression across its many genres, from street ballads to art song, grime to hymns, and music hall to punk. \u003cem\u003eOur Subversive Voice\u003c\/em\u003e traces the history of the protest song, examines its rhetorical forms, and explores the conditions of its genesis. It recounts how these songs have addressed discrimination and inequality, exploitation and the environment, and immigration and identity, and how institutions and organizations have sought both to facilitate and to suppress them. Drawing on a large and diverse corpus of songwriters, this book argues that song does more than accompany protest: it choreographs and communicates it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe protest song, \u003cem\u003eOur Subversive Voice\u003c\/em\u003e shows, is an enduring, affecting, and effective means of expression and an essential element in understanding the drive to create political change, in the past and for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56160548389238,"sku":"9780228023722","price":28.21,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_39255041.jpg?v=1772784167","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780228023722-our-subversive-voice","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}