Music and Protest in 1968

Beate Kutschke is Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at the Universität Leipzig. Her research focuses on music and protest around the year 1968 and she has published a monograph, a volume of collected papers and numerous articles on this topic. She is an internationally active researcher, who has presented papers around the world in German, English and French. She has taught in Europe, the United States (at Harvard University) and Asia (at the University of Hong Kong). A recipient of various scholarships including a three-year research grant by the German Research Foundation, she is currently writing a third monograph. Her interests range from Baroque music and music after 1945 to music and aesthetics, music and politics, and music and ethics. Barley Norton is a senior lecturer in ethnomusicology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has carried out extensive field research in Vietnam and other countries in Southeast Asia and is the author of Songs for the Spirits: Music and Mediums in Modern Vietnam (2009). As part of a Getty-funded research project on experimental music performance in Vietnam, he made the ethnographic film Hanoi Eclipse: The Music of Dai Lam Linh (2010), which has been screened at numerous international film festivals.

• Introduction Beate Kutschke; 1. Expressive revolutions: '1968' and music in The Netherlands Robert Adlington; 2. Music as plea for political action: the presence of musicians in Italian protest movements around 1968 Gianmario Borio; 3. 'This is my country': American popular music and political engagement in '1968' Sarah Hill; 4. Spontaneity and Black consciousness: South Africans imagining musical and political freedom in 1960s Europe Carol Muller; 5. Vietnamese popular song in '1968': war, protest and sentimentalism Barley Norton; 6. Music and protest in Japan: the rise of underground folk song in '1968' Tôru Mitsui; 7. 'There is no revolution without song': 'new song' in Latin America Jan Fairley; 8. 'The power of music': antiauthoritarian music movements in Scandinavia in '1968' Alf Björnberg; 9. British rock: the short '1968', and the long Allan Moore; 10. '1968' and the experimental revolution in Britain Virginia Anderson; 11. Antiauthoritarian revolt by musical means on both sides of the Berlin Wall Beate Kutschke; 12. '1968' - the emergence of a protest culture in the popular music of the Eastern Bloc? Rüdiger Ritter; 13. Gendering '1968': womanhood in model works of the People's Republic of China and movie musicals of Hong Kong Hon-Lun Yang; 14. A revolution in sheep's wool stockings: early music and '1968' Kailan Rubinoff; 15. Music and May 1968 in France: practices, roles, representations Eric Drott.

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