Folk Music and the New Left in the Sixties

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I. Mississippi Needs Folk Singers
•   1. Background
•   2. Senator Keating Discovers a Crack in the Nation’s Foundation
•   3. The Schizophrenic World of the Protest Song
•   4. Bob Moses Attacks Mississippi
•   5. Here’s to the State of Mississippi
•   6. Carolyn Hester Goes to Mississippi
•   7. Joan Baez Boards the Mississippi Train
•   8. Peter, Paul and Mary
•   9. Bob Dylan: The Reluctant Spokesman
• 10. After the Summer Comes the Fall
• Part II. “Hey, Hey, LBJ, How May Kids
• Did You Kill Today?”
• 11. The Radicalizing of Tom Hayden
• 12. Lyndon Johnson Fights a War on Two Fronts: In Vietnam and in the Streets
• 13. The Music of the People
• 14. Music and the Prefigurative Culture
• 15. Rise of the Prefigurative Culture
• 16. “Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation”
• 17. Impatience Leads to Escalation
• 18. The Chicago Seven Get Famous
• 19. The New Left Loses Its Credibility
• 20. The Shift in Academia: What Is Relevant?
• Part III. Burn, Baby, Burn
• 21. Radicalism in Both Politics and Music Dies
• 22. The Death of Music as Revolution
• 23. You Don’t Need a Weatherman…
• Conclusion
• Chapter Notes
• Bibliography
• Index