We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Spener, David, 1961- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press 2016
2016.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.