33 Revolutions per Minute : A History of Protest Songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day Paperback - 2011
by Lynskey, Dorian
- Used
From one of the most prominent music critics writing today comes a page-turning and wonderfully researched history of the songs that have transformed the world through the 20th century and beyond.
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- Title 33 Revolutions per Minute : A History of Protest Songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day
- Author Lynskey, Dorian
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 688
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Date 2011-04-05
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4331478-6
- ISBN 9780061670152 / 0061670154
- Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
- Dimensions 8.99 x 6.08 x 1.77 in (22.83 x 15.44 x 4.50 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Musicians - Political activity, Protest songs - 20th century - History and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010024247
- Dewey Decimal Code 782.421
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From the rear cover
From one of the United Kingdom's most prominent music critics, a page-turning and wonderfully researched history of 33 songs that have transformed the world through the twentieth century and beyond.
When pop music meets politics, the results are often thrilling, sometimes life-changing, and never simple. The protest songs of such great artists as Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, U2, Public Enemy, Fela Kuti, R.E.M., Rage Against the Machine, and the Clash represent pop music at its most charged and relevant, providing the soundtrack and informing social change since the 1930s. They capture the attention and passions of listeners, force their way into the news, and make their presence felt from the streets to the corridors of power.
33 Revolutions Per Minute is a history of protest music embodied in 33 songs that span seven decades and four continents, from Billie Holiday crooning "Strange Fruit" before a shocked audience to Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young paying tribute to the Vietnam protesters killed at Kent State in "Ohio," to Green Day railing against President Bush and twenty-first-century media in "American Idiot." With the aid of exclusive new interviews, Dorian Lynskey explores the individuals, ideas, and events behind each song. This expansive survey examines how music has engaged with racial unrest, nuclear paranoia, apartheid, war, poverty, and oppression, offering hope, stirring anger, inciting action, and producing songs that continue to resonate years down the line, sometimes at great cost to the musicians involved.
For the audience who embraced Alex Ross's The Rest Is Noise, Bob Dylan's Chronicles, or Simon Reynolds's Rip It Up and Start Again, 33 Revolutions Per Minute is an absorbing and moving account of 33 songs that made history.
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Citations
- Booklist, 03/01/2011, Page 10
- Booklist Editors Choice/Adult, 01/01/2012, Page 6
- Kirkus Best Books, 12/01/2011, Page 2207
- Kirkus Reviews, 12/01/2010, Page 0
- Library Journal, 11/15/2010, Page 70
- New York Times Book Review, 05/01/2011, Page 14
- New Yorker (The), 05/30/2011, Page 83
- Publishers Weekly, 01/31/2011, Page 0
