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Protest Music as Responsible Citizenship
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Resources

We are pleased to offer this resource page to those seeking information on the genre of protest music. The links below, approved by the project's director, are intended to further our conversations with the artists participating in this event, as well as to shed light on the genre's cultural contexts and contemporary forms. Please send all comments, suggestions, URLs, and proposals for contributions to the general editor.

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Harry Belafonte:
http://www.war-time.org/current/11art2.html

http://www.nathanielturner.com/transcriptbelafonteking.htm

http://www.artistsnetwork.org/news6/news265.html

http://www.futurenet.org/21American/belafonte.htm

http://www.war-times.org/current/11art2.html

http://www.bayarea.net/~floor13/music/harry.htm

http://www.sbgmusic.com/html/teacher/reference/historical/freedom.html

http://www.brama.com/news/press/030216antiwar.html

http://www.racematters.org/questionsforharrybelafonte.htm

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Pete Seeger:
http://lmno4p.org/images/protests_2.13-17.03/u.n._seeger.jpg

http://www.acousticguitar.com/issues/ag115/feature115.html

http://johnmclaughlin.hypermart.net/seeger.html

http://dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Styles/Folk/Bands_and_Artists/S/Seeger,_Pete/

http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Music/Styles/Folk/Bands_and_Artists/
S/Seeger,_Pete/

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Pete%20Seeger

http://www.peacemagazine.org/9707/seeger.htm

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Bernice Johnson Reagon:

http://chnm.gmu.edu/rhr/intervi1.htm

http://www.pressnetwork.com/sweet.htm

http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1031839 (audio)

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/bernice_johnson
_reagon.html

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/03.06.97/music-9710.html

http://www.utne.com/pub/1999_74/features/524-1.html

http://www.yesmagazine.com/16culture/reagon.htm

http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues99/feb99/
mall_feb99.html

http://www.dsrotenstein.com/ziggy/sweet-honey.htm

http://www.citybeat.com/archives/1997/issue312/music2.html

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Holly Near:
http://www.hollynear.com/

http://www.folklib.net/uwp/wrp_near_holly.shtml

http://www.northbay.com/entertainment/taylor/20dant_q23.html

http://www.femmusic.com/interviews%202001/hollynear.htm

http://content.gay.com/channels/arts/musicorner/010420_near_holly.html

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Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

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Suggested Readings:

Rockin' the Boat: Mass Music and Mass Movements - Reebee Garofalo (editor)

Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century - Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison

Chimes of Freedom: The Politics of Bob Dylan's Art - Mike

Songs of Protest and Civil Rights (Traditional Black Music) - Jerry Silverman

Pistol Packin' Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong (Music in American Life) - Shelly Romalis

Strike Songs of the Depression (American Made Music Series) - Timothy P. Lynch

Victor: An Unfinished Song - Joan Jara

Minstrels of the Dawn: The Folk-Protest Singer as a Cultural Hero - Jerome L. Rodnitzky

Guerilla Minstrels: John Lennon, Joe Hill, Wood Guthrie and Bob Dylan - Wayne Hamptom

For Democracy, Workers, and God: Labor Song-Pomes and Labor Protest, 1865-1895 - Clark D. Halker

Songs of Work and Protest - Edith Fowke (Editor), Joe Glazer (Editor)

American Folksongs of Protest - John Greenway

Give Peace a Chance: Music and the Struggle for Peach - Marianne Philbin (editor)

Songs of Protest, War, and Peace - Serge Denisoff

Freedom is Coming: Songs of Protest and Praise from South Africa for Mixed Choir - Anders Nyberg

Ratbags and Rabblerousers: A Century of Political Protest, Song, and Satire - Warren Fahey

We Who Believe in Freedom: Sweet Honey in the Rock...Still on the Journey - Bernice Johnson Reagon

Continuum: The First Songbook of Sweet Honey in the Rock

The Great Peace March - Holly Near

 

Additional Resources for Books:

http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp?CRID=social_movements&OFFID=se1
http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp?CRID=protest_music&OFFID=se1

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Visualizing Protest:
http://lmno4p.org/images/protests_2.13-17.03/

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Protest Music: Related Organizations:
http://www.biztravel.com/TRAVEL/SIT/sit_pages/214.html

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Protest Music as Responsible Citizenship Forum:
Logistics, Venues, and Organizers:
http://www.capa.com/venues/southern.html

http://www.dnr.ohio.gov/parks/explore/magazine/sprsum96/UNDERGRR.htm

http://www.keltonhouse.com/ugrrandkh.html

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Articles on the State of Protest Music:
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/strangefruit/index.html

http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archive/25historyway.php

http://culture.tol.cz

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12880

http://bhsweb.nsd.org/library/lyrics.html

http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1212060.html

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/13/music-epstein.php

http://bulletin.ninemsn.com.au

http://www.wiretapmag.org/story.html?StoryID=15518

http://www.wiretapmag.org/music.html

http://www.utne.com/webwatch/2003_37/news/10420-1.html

http://www.monitor.upeace.org/innerpg.cfm?id_article=5

http://contrabandit.com/Streets/text/letsgetfreetext1.htm

http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1212060.html

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Contemporary Protest Musicians:

Ani Difranco

http://www.motherjones.com/interview/difranco.html

http://www.theonionavclub.com/avclub3809/avfeature_3809.html

http://www.salon.com/ent/music/int/2003/06/10/difranco/index_np.html

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Billy Bragg:
http://www.billybragg.co.uk/

http://www.moregoatthangoose.com/interviews/billybragg.htm

http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/revitalvi_82.htm

http://www.bigtakeover.com/braggint.html

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Chuck D:

http://www.publicenemy.com/soldiers/

http://www.vh1.com/shows/events/say_it_loud/epis_pushin.jhtml

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15518

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/strangefruit/antiestablishment.html

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Michael Franti and Spearhead:
http://www.spearheadvibrations.com/index.htm

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles3/DemocracyNow_Franti.htm

http://www.popmatters.com/music/interviews/franti-michael-020729.shtml

http://www.synthesis.net/music/feature.php?fid=20

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Rage Against the Machine:
http://www.ratm.com/

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,59287,00.html

http://www.insidecx.com/interviews/archive/rage.html

http://www.artistwd.com/joyzine/music/rage_machine/rage.htm

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Protest Music: Related Articles and Reviews of CDs and Documentaries:
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/03.28.02/cover/protestmusic-0213.html

http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0044/music-mcgonigal.php

http://www.spearheadvibrations.com/index.htm

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles3/DemocracyNow_Franti.htm

http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archive/25historyway.php

http://culture.tol.cz/look/CER/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication
=14&NrIssue=45&NrSection=2&NrArticle=8653

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12880

http://bhsweb.nsd.org/library/lyrics.html

http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1212060.html

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/13/music-epstein.php

http://bulletin.ninemsn.com.au/bulletin/EdDesk.nsf/0/200c77261c0b7175
ca256d04002db662?OpenDocument

http://www.wiretapmag.org/story.html?StoryID=15518

http://www.wiretapmag.org/music.html

http://www.utne.com/webwatch/2003_37/news/10420-1.html

http://www.ratm.com/

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,59287,00.html

http://www.insidecx.com/interviews/archive/rage.html

http://www.artistwd.com/joyzine/music/rage_machine/rage.htm

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Other Protest Music Links:

http://www.peace-not-war.org

http://www.battlenotes.com/Music_of_Protest.html

http://www.counterpunch.org/atapattu02012003.html

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