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1960s: book examples

Civil Rights Music by Reiland Rabaka
Call Number: ML3917.U6 R33 2016
The major soundtracks of the Civil Rights Movement: gospel, freedom songs, rhythm & blues, and rock & roll.
Music and Protest In 1968 by Beate Kutschke (Editor); Barley Norton (Editor)
Call Number: ML3918.P67 M82 2013
Explores music's key role as a means of socio-political dissent in the US and beyond.
The Republic of Rock by Michael J. Kramer
Call Number: ML3918.R63 K73 2013
Music and citizenship in the sixties counterculture.
Songs of the Vietnam Conflict by James E. Perone
Call Number: ML3477.P45 2001
Treats both anti-war and pro-government songs of the 1960s and early 1970s, music that both reflected and shaped the attitudes of all who were exposed to it.
Music and War by Ben Arnold
Call Number: Ref ML128.W2.A75 1993
A research and information guide.

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Sing for Freedom by Guy Carawan
Call Number: M1977.C47.S56 1992
The story of the Civil Rights Movement through its songs. A combined edition of We Shall Overcome (1963) and Freedom Is A Constant Struggle (1968). A companion CD is cataloged separately.

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Sing for freedom: the story of the civil rights movement through its songs.
Call Number: PhonCD F G3701.P7.S56
CD companion to the score. Also available as streaming audio in: Music and Performing Arts from Alexander Street Press (MIT access)
Songs my mother taught me by Fannie Lou Hamer
Call Number: Call Number: PhonCD F G3701.G6.H378
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) was a commanding voice of the Civil Rights Movement.
We shall overcome: songs of the "Freedom Riders" and the "sit-ins."
Streaming audio in: Music and Performing Arts from Alexander Street Press (MIT access)
Kanopy streaming video (MIT access)
See categories Music for social change; Documentaries. Example:
Greenwich Village: music that defined a nation

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