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The Routledge history of social protest in popular music

by Jonathan C. Friedman

The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music provides a sweeping overview of social protest music in diverse collection of twenty eight essays that analyse the trends, musical formats, and rhetorical divides that have been used in popular music to illuminate the human condition.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?