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Roigas\, Jan; Deger\, Serdar; Loening\, Stefan; Wille\, Andreas
?Pratt's subject is the creation and use of popular music by Arfican-Americans, women, the poor, and the variously dipossessed in American life. Spirituals, blues, gospel, folk, and rock are considered expressions of hope, reflections of disillusioment, and a vehicle for promoting sociopolitical change. Although Pratt questions the political success of this music, particularly that of the hypercommerical rock scene, he believes that 'Popular culture...remains the primary means of resistance and the most widely used channel for expression of emancipatory political perspectives.' Without comments on their purely musical abilities, Pratt finds Woodie Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen the most provocative songwriter-performers. Copiously researched and well documented, this book is strongest on African-American music and weakest on rock, with no coverage of punk, the most blatanly antisocial of all pop genres. Pratt eschews the polemics that too often obscure the real issues in books on this topic and focuses instead on the experiences of the performers and their audiences. Primarily for undergraduate students of social science and the general reader.?-Choice
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