Political dimensions of the blues

Cary, M.

doi:10.1080/03007769008591391

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“…Code-words, along with more general grievances, eventually found their way into blues music. Son House, a famous early primitive-blues musician, for instance, noted that the phrase "dust my broom," a popular blues lyric from the song by the same name, had two messages: while one was a sexual connotation, the other was a message from one slave to another that tomorrow he would run away (Cary, 1990). The blues along with the strong tradition of black gospel music persist, and these music forms became influential in the creation and maintenance of group identity and solidarity before, during, and after the civil rights movement (Morris, 1984; see also Danaher & Blackwelder, 1993;Rose, 1989).…”

Section: Music Ritual and Oppositional Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

Music, culture and social movements: song and southern textile worker mobilization, 1929‐1934

Roscigno

Danaher²,

Summers-Effler³

2002

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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Highlights the importance of music in ritual and culture generally, extending the focus to collective action. Argues that music and its emotional and cognitive impacts can be fundamental to the construction of social movement culture. Analyses song lyrics from the southern textile strikes of 1929‐1934 in an attempt to show how music and song helped construct a collective identity across relatively dispersed mill villages, shifted accountability for mill workers problems towards the labour process and its beneficiaries and suggested to the listener a collective solution. Discusses the implications of the findings for understanding music, culture and their relation to subordinate group challenge.

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Section: Music Ritual and Oppositional Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

Music, culture and social movements: song and southern textile worker mobilization, 1929‐1934

Roscigno

Danaher²,

Summers-Effler³

2002

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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“…Specifically, there is a profound relationship between political developments and musical transformations. Various genres, from jazz to blues, rock to metal, have been evaluated together with the political and social relations of the period in which they emerged or developed in several seminal studies (Cary, 1990;Garratt, 2019;Horne, 2019;Monson, 2009;Stewart, 2005;Street, 2003Street, , 2012. As these studies show, musical forms have direct effects on the strengthening and enlargement of the political framework, especially in identity issues, rebellion cases, emerging silent resistance, or making hidden power relations visible.…”

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Heavy metal in Turkey: Tracking the tensions of democratization in the 1990s

Yıldırım

2023

Sociology Compass

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Music, as a form of public discourse, invariably becomes a social science field that is considered more in the postmodern era when the boundaries are blurred. This study examines the political and cultural links between the emergence of the heavy metal genre and Turkish democracy. There are correlations between the prevalence of heavy metal in Turkey and the country's social and political transition in the 1990s and the search for a new path. The main argument here is that, among the country's tense democratization efforts and social problems, the heavy metal genre also indirectly carries the distinct traces of a different political search for the youth of the 1990s, although not directly. Democratic politics is a process established by daily life with the direct influence of societal interactions, and Turkish politics, and cultural life, in this case, heavy metal, include important notions in this remarkable manner. The main point symbolized by metal music in Turkey was its lyrical and artistic ability to express different points of view loudly enough against the uniform religious and nationalist culture that could be offensive, while other mainstream ranges such as pop and arabesque music didn't mind this issue.

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Carr¹,

Hancock²

2003

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Political dimensions of the blues

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

Music, culture and social movements: song and southern textile worker mobilization, 1929‐1934

Music, culture and social movements: song and southern textile worker mobilization, 1929‐1934

Heavy metal in Turkey: Tracking the tensions of democratization in the 1990s

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