From 'Strange Fruit' to 'American Idiot' this tome (843 pages in total) covers the rise and fall of the protest song through 33 examples spanning both the world and the object of protest, be it Vietnam, Black Power, Thatcher, apartheid or dictatorial repression. Each chapter takes the time and space to look at the perceived injustice, the historical context and the range of musical responses becoming as much a social history as a musical one.
(Clive Yelf - bwl 81 Summer 2016 ) |
