American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War Two

Kaufman, William orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-5206-647X (2022) American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War Two. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York. ISBN 978-1-316-51433-7

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Abstract

Long before anyone ever heard of ‘protest music’, people in America were singing about their struggles. They sang for justice and fairness, food and shelter, and equality and freedom; they sang to be acknowledged. Sometimes they also sang to oppress. This book uncovers the history of these people and their songs, from the moment Columbus made fateful landfall to the start of the Second World War, when ‘protest music’ emerged as an identifiable brand. Cutting across musical genres, Will Kaufman recovers the passionate voices of America itself. We encounter songs of the mainland and the conquered territories of Hawai’i, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines; we hear Indigenous songs, immigrant songs and Klan songs, minstrel songs and symphonies,
songs of the heard and the unheard, songs of the celebrated and the anonymous, of the righteous and the despicable. This book shows that all these songs are woven into the very fabric of American history.

Contents

Section title
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Preface
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Introduction: The Work of Recovery
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1. Broken Spears and Songs of Sorrow
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2. Good Newes from Virginia
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17
3. A Capital Chop
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41
4. If I Had but a Small Loaf of Bread
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61
5. Where Today Are the Pequot?
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87
6. There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood
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111
7. A Tragedy That Beggared the Greek
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130
8. Muscle, Blood and Steel
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150
9. Rule Anglo-Saxia
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174
10. The Hand That Feeds You
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196
11. We Are Many
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224
12. 100% American
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251
13. We're Up Against It Now
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272
14. The Panic Is On
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302
15. To Thee We Sing
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333
Conclusion: Whose Land?
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366

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