Artists have often provided the earliest demonstrations of conscience and ethical examination in response to political events. The political shifts that took place in the 1960s were addressed by a revival of folk music as an expression of protest, hope and the courage to imagine a better world. This work explores the relationship between the cultural and political ideologies of the 1960s and the growing folk music movement, with a focus on musicians Phil Oaks; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary; Carolyn Hester and Bob Dylan.
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| Introduction |
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Part I Mississippi Needs Folk Singers |
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2 Senator Keating Discovers a Crack in the Nation's Foundation |
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3 The Schizophrenic World of the Protest Song |
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31 | (3) |
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4 Bob Moses Attacks Mississippi |
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5 Here's to the State of Mississippi |
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40 | (6) |
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6 Carolyn Hester Goes to Mississippi |
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46 | (6) |
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7 Joan Baez Boards the Mississippi Train |
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52 | (7) |
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59 | (5) |
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9 Bob Dylan: The Reluctant Spokesman |
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64 | (8) |
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10 After the Summer Comes the Fall |
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72 | (4) |
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Part II "Hey, Hey, LBJ, How May Kids Did You Kill Today?" |
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11 The Radicalizing of Tom Hayden |
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12 Lyndon Johnson Fights a War on Two Fronts: In Vietnam and in the Streets |
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83 | (8) |
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13 The Music of the People |
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14 Music and the Prefigurative Culture |
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15 Rise of the Prefigurative Culture |
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104 | (7) |
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16 "Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation" |
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111 | (5) |
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17 Impatience Leads to Escalation |
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116 | (8) |
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18 The Chicago Seven Get Famous |
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124 | (3) |
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19 The New Left Loses Its Credibility |
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127 | (6) |
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20 The Shift in Academia: What Is Relevant? |
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133 | (7) |
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Part III Burn, Baby, Burn |
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21 Radicalism in Both Politics and Music Dies |
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140 | (12) |
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22 The Death of Music as Revolution |
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152 | (7) |
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23 You Don't Need a Weatherman |
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159 | (7) |
| Conclusion |
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166 | (11) |
| Chapter Notes |
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177 | (7) |
| Bibliography |
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184 | (5) |
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The late Michael Scott Cain taught English, literature and popular culture at the college level for more than 40 years. He was an editor for rambles.net, covering jazz, blues and poetry and was the author of seven books of poetry, four novels and several works of nonfiction.
