33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day
Dorian Lynskey is one of the most prominent music critics writing today. With 33 Revolutions Per Minute, he offers an engrossing, insightful, and wonderfully researched history of protest music in the twentieth century and beyond. From Billie Holiday and Woodie Guthrie to Bob Dylan and the Clash...
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Dorian Lynskey is one of the most prominent music critics writing today. With 33 Revolutions Per Minute, he offers an engrossing, insightful, and wonderfully researched history of protest music in the twentieth century and beyond. From Billie Holiday and Woodie Guthrie to Bob Dylan and the Clash to Green Day and Rage Against the Machine, 33 Revolutions Per Minute is a moving and fascinating portrait of a century of popular music that tried to change the world.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061670152 (0061670154)
ASIN: 61670154
Publish date: April 5th 2011
Publisher: Ecco
Pages no: 688
Edition language: English
An ambitious, sweeping, endlessly fascinating chronicle of protest songs from Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" to Green Day's "American Idiot." Lynskey covers afrobeat, blues, country, folk, hip hop, jazz, rap, and reggae in this superb work of music history. Lynskey is frequently prone to digressio...
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