The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle
By T.V. Reed.
Description
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 to American culture. In comparative accounts of movements beginning with the African American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 196...
ISBN(s)
0816637717, 9780816637713
