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Author: Priit Vesilind
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9789985316238
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes Estonia's peaceful struggle for freedom from Soviet occupation during 1986 and 1991 through patriotic rallies with music and songs.
Author: Guntis Smidchens
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2014-03-28
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0295804890
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Power of Song shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a military superpower and achieved independence in the Baltic �Singing Revolution.� When attacked by Soviet soldiers in public displays of violent force, singing Balts maintained faith in nonviolent political action. More than 110 choral, rock, and folk songs are translated and interpreted in poetic, cultural, and historical context. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh7vFFjK0rc
Author: Laura Mason
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-09-05
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1501728563
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Laura Mason examines the shifting fortunes of singing as a political gesture to highlight the importance of popular culture to revolutionary politics. Arguing that scholars have overstated the uniformity of revolutionary political culture, Mason uses songwriting and singing practices to reveal its diverse nature. Song performances in the streets, theaters, and clubs of Paris showed how popular culture was invested with new political meaning after 1789, becoming one of the most important means for engaging in revolutionary debate.Throughout the 1790s, French citizens came to recognize the importance of anthems for promoting their interpretations of revolutionary events, and for championing their aspirations for the Revolution. By opening new arenas of cultural activity and demolishing Old Regime aesthetic hierarchies, revolutionaries permitted a larger and infinitely more diverse population to participate in cultural production and exchange, Mason contends. The resulting activism helps explain the urgency with which successive governments sought to impose an official political culture on a heterogeneous and mobilized population. After 1793, song culture was gradually depoliticized as popular classes retreated from public arenas, middle brow culture turned to the strictly entertaining, and official culture became increasingly rigid. At the same time, however, singing practices were invented which formed the foundation for new, activist singing practices in the next century. The legacy of the Revolution, according to Mason, was to bestow new respectability on popular singing, reshaping it from an essentially conservative means of complaint to an instrument of social and political resistance.
Author: Dorian Lynskey
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2011-04-05
Total Pages: 1127
ISBN-13: 0062078844
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dorian Lynskey is one of the most prominent music critics writing today. With 33 Revolutions Per Minute, he offers an engrossing, insightful, and wonderfully researched history of protest music in the twentieth century and beyond. From Billie Holiday and Woodie Guthrie to Bob Dylan and the Clash to Green Day and Rage Against the Machine, 33 Revolutions Per Minute is a moving and fascinating portrait of a century of popular music that tried to change the world.
Author: Stefan Zucker
Publisher: Bel Canto Society
Published: 2014-11-28
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781891456008
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard Powers
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 0374706417
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“The last novel where I rooted for every character, and the last to make me cry.” - Marlon James, Elle From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted—and divided—family, set against the backdrop of postwar America. On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson’s epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish émigré scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Black Philadelphian studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and—against all odds and their better judgment—they marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped only in song. Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth grow up, however, during the civil rights era, coming of age in the violent 1960s, and living out adulthood in the racially retrenched late century. Jonah, the eldest, “whose voice could make heads of state repent,” follows a life in his parents’ beloved classical music. Ruth, the youngest, devotes herself to community activism and repudiates the white culture her brother represents. Joseph, the middle child and the narrator of this generation-bridging tale, struggles to find himself and remain connected to them both. Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing is a story of self-invention, allegiance, race, cultural ownership, the compromised power of music, and the tangled loops of time that rewrite all belonging.
Author: Mike Majoros
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tells the story of Estonia's non-violent struggle for freedom from Soviet occupation. Song was the weapon of choice in 1987-1991 when Estonians wanted to end the occupation. The Singing Revolution is the name of the step-by-step process that led to the reestablishment of Estonian independence in 1991, a non-violent revolution that overthrew a very violent occupation. It was called the Singing Revolution because of the role that singing played in the protests of the mid-1980s. Singing had always been a major unifying force for Estonians during the 50 years of Soviet rule. It began with the Laulupidu song festival in 1947 and a poem set to music that escaped the Soviet censors and became the rallying song of the people. The poem, written by Lydia Koidula, was Mu isamaa on minu arm (Land of my fathers, land that I love). The composer was Gustav Ernesaks. Includes archival film footage and commentary from many survivors of the era.
Author: Amy Nelson
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780271023694
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Music for the Revolution examines musicians' responses to Soviet power and reveals the conditions under which a distinctively Soviet musical culture emerged in the early thirties." --book jacket.
Author: Tríona Ní Shíocháin
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2017-12-29
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1785337688
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Considered by many to be the greatest Irish song poet of her generation, Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire (Yellow Mary O’Leary; 1774–1848) was an illiterate woman unconnected to elite literary and philosophical circles who powerfully engaged the politics of her own society through song. As an oral arts practitioner, Máire Bhuí composed songs whose ecstatic, radical vision stirred her community to revolt and helped to shape nineteenth-century Irish anti-colonial thought. This provocative and richly theorized study explores the re-creative, liminal aspect of song, treating it as a performative social process that cuts to the very root of identity and thought formation, thus re-imagining the history of ideas in society.
