Music & Civil Rights

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" Many prevalent theories of political and social change found in the Western world today fail to acknowledge the significance of music and other art forms in political and social movements. If I were to assert that music contributes to the effectiveness of a social movement, few would seriously consider the validity of my assertion and even fewer would stand by me in support of the claim (Heckman 158). The lack of attention given music and the overemphasis of economics and politics in the writings of modern political thinkers have given rise to the belief that music plays a trivial role, if any at all, in promoting social change. Is this true? Do songs play a relatively small role in social movements? We can answer this question by examining the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and 1960s. In such an (...)"

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