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Liebermann, Robbie. "'My Song Is My Weapon': People's Songs and the Politics of Culture, 1946-1949," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, January 1984.
This dissertation focuses on the Communist-oriented musicians and activists who tried to sow the seed of a “people’s culture” based on folk and folk-style songs, group singing, and a vision of a peaceful and just world. In a time that was decisive for determining the future direction of American politics, People’s Songs posed a radical, alternative vision to the developing Cold War consensus, and provided critical links between the Popular Front radicalism of the 1930s and the Civil Rights movement and the New Left of the 1950s and 1960s. The dissertation argues that People’s Songs’ work and outlook shaped, and was shaped by, the culture of the Communist movement; this movement culture simultaneously sustained the commitment of the People’s Songsters and contributed to their isolation. The study also frames some ongoing theoretical questions about the relationship between a political movement and its culture.
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