From source By Christopher Arnott
33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs from Billie Holiday to Green Day By Dorian Lynkskey. Harper Collins/Ecco, 2011. This is a tremendous, if unwieldy book about music making a difference. ... A chapter on, say, The Clash's “White Riot” covers the birth of British punk in the mid-70s and the social irrelevance of the prevailing pop genre of the era, disco. The following chapter gives disco its due concerning the gay rights struggle, centering on Carl ...
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