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Author Reed, T. V. (Thomas Vernon), author.

Title The art of protest : culture and activism from the Civil Rights movement to the present / T.V. Reed
Edition Second edition
Published Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 496 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- 1. Singing civil rights : the freedom song tradition -- 2. Dramatic resistance : theatrical politics from the Black Panthers to Black Lives Matter -- 3. The poetical is the political : feminist poetry and the poetics of women's rights -- 4. Revolutionary walls : Chicano/a/x murals, Chicano/a/x movements -- 5. Old cowboys, new Indians : Hollywood frames the American Indian movement -- 6. "We are [not] the world" : famine, apartheid, and the politics of rock music -- 7. ACTing UP against AIDS : the (very) graphic arts in a moment of crisis -- 8. Novels of environmental justice : toxic colonialism and the nature of culture -- 9, Puppetry against puppet regimes : the "Battle of Seattle" and the global justice movement -- 10. #Occupy all the arts : challenging Wall Street and economic inequality worldwide -- Conclusion : The cultural study of social movements.-- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
Summary "Now thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition of T.V. Reed's acclaimed work offers engaging accounts of ten key progressive movements in postwar America, from the African American struggle for civil rights beginning in the 1950s to Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter in the twenty-first century."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 11, 2019)
Subject Radicalism -- United States
Protest movements -- United States.
Social movements in art.
Social movements in literature.
Radicalism in art.
Radicalism in literature.
Radicalism -- Songs and music -- History and criticism
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
ART -- Art & Politics.
Protest movements
Radicalism
Radicalism in art
Radicalism in literature
Radicalism -- Songs and music
Social movements in art
Social movements in literature
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781452958644
1452958645
1517906210
9781517906214
9781517906221
1517906229