History Now
32 (Summer 2012)
The Music and History of Our Times
From the Editor
Popular music is the soundtrack to much of our history. When Revolutionary War soldiers went off to war, they did so to the tune of “Yankee Doodle.” Abolitionist songs, sung by groups like the Hutchinson Family Singers, brought the anti-slavery message to hundreds if not thousands. As Americans faced each other in battle, the army in blue took heart from the strains of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” while soldiers in grey rallied to “Dixie.”More »
The Historian's Perspective
“Fun, Fun Rock ’n’ Roll High School”
by Glenn C. Altschuler and Robert O. Summers
The Sixties and Protest Music
by Kerry Candaele
Women and the Music Industry in the 1970s
by Elizabeth L. Wollman
Globalizing Protest in the 1980s: Musicians Collaborate to Change the World
by Douglas R. Egerton and Leigh Fought
Pop Music and the Spatialization of Race in the 1990s
by Mark Anthony Neal
