We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán /

We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán /

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We Shall Not Be Moved: The Trail Blazed by a Song from the U.S. South to Spain and South America details the history of "We Shall Not Be Moved" from its birth as a slave spiritual in the U.S. South and its subsequent adoption as a standard hymn by the U.S. labor, civil rights, and farmwork...

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Main Author: Spener, David, 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
We shall not be moved.
Protest songs > Latin America > History and criticism.
Protest songs > Spain > History and criticism.
Protest songs > United States > History and criticism.
Protest songs.
MUSIC > Printed Music > Vocal.
MUSIC > Lyrics.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Voice.
Cultural studies.
Chansons contestataires > Amerique latine > Histoire et critique.
Chansons contestataires > Espagne > Histoire et critique.
Chansons contestataires > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
United States.
Spain.
Latin America.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • A song, socialism, and the 1973 military coup in Chile
  • "I shall not be moved" in the U.S. South : blacks and whites, slavery and spirituals
  • From worship to work : a spiritual is adopted by the U.S. labor movement and the left
  • From union song to freedom song : civil rights activists sing an old tune for a new cause
  • From English in the U.S. South to Spanish in the U.S. Southwest : "We shall not be moved" becomes "No nos moverâan"
  • Across the Atlantic to Spain
  • Social movement : a song's journey across time and space
  • Translation and transcendence in the travels of a song
  • Conclusion : an internationalist culture of the singing left in the twentieth century.

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