The disc We Shall Overcome and the spread of civil rights songs in the United States
This article analyses the disc We Shall Overcome. Songs of the “Freedom Riders” and the “Sit-ins”, recorded on April 1961 by Folkways Records, in New York city. It has twelve songs, seven in side I and five in side II, performed by The Montgomery Gospel Trio, The Nashville Quartet and Guy Carawan. T...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2017
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| Online Access: | https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/muspop/article/view/13019 |
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| Summary: | This article analyses the disc We Shall Overcome. Songs of the “Freedom Riders” and the “Sit-ins”, recorded on April 1961 by Folkways Records, in New York city. It has twelve songs, seven in side I and five in side II, performed by The Montgomery Gospel Trio, The Nashville Quartet and Guy Carawan. The disc shows a part of the repertoire used during the civil rights movement actions in the United States. We aim to comprehend in which way some cultural traditions were mobilized and redrafted to attend the demands of the movement. Through the diffusion of songs in different ways, like books and discs, a lot of artists and mediators helped the consolidation and legitimation of a canon of songs, integrating a specific cultural tradition that was mobilized towards the most influent social movement of the country. |
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| ISSN: | 2316-7858 |
