The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present

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A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistance The Art of Protest, first published in 2006, was hailed as an “essential” introduction to progressive social movements in the United States and praised for its “fluid writing style” and “well-informed and insightful” contribution (Choice Magazine). 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.  Reed focuses on the artistic activities of these movements as a lively way to frame progressive social change and its cultural legacies: civil rights freedom songs, the street drama of the Black Panthers, revolutionary murals of the Chicano movement, poetry in women’s movements, the American Indian Movement’s use of film and video, anti-apartheid rock music, ACT UP’s visual art, digital arts in #Occupy, Black Lives Matter rap videos, and more.  Through the kaleidoscopic lens of artistic expression, Reed reveals how activism profoundly shapes popular cultural forms. For students and scholars of social change and those seeking to counter reactionary efforts to turn back the clock on social equality and justice, the new edition of The Art of Protest will be both informative and inspiring. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication 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 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z