"Fear a movement that sings": Music and the American labor movement.

Title: "Fear a movement that sings": Music and the American labor movement.
Identifier: AAI9119657
identifier: 9119657
Creator: McCarthy, Richard.
Contributor: Adviser: Bogdan Denitch
Date: 1991
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations | Music
Abstract: This work will be a study in historical ethnomethodology tracing the history of the American working class and their organizations through their songs. My thesis is that when social movements, in my example the American labor movement, are growing, they develop a culture; when they are mature, they institutionalize that culture; and when they are in decline, they neglect it. I attempt to assess the importance of culture, specifically musical culture, as an important determinant of class consciousness and social conflict. No study of labor music can be complete without an understanding of the historical, social, economic, and cultural events and trends occuring in the "wider world." There has been class conflict, and factional conflict; religious and racial tensions; and, recently, gender conflict. I try to evaluate and assess all of these, through the music of the participants.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.