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Political Rock Edited by Mark Pedelty and Kristine Weglarz Political Rock This page has been left blank intentionally Political Rock Edited by MaRk Pedelty and kRistine WeglaRz University of Minnesota, USA © Mark Pedelty and kristine Weglarz 2013 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Mark Pedelty and kristine Weglarz have asserted their right under the copyright, designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Published by ashgate Publishing limited ashgate Publishing company Wey court east 110 cherry street Union Road suite 3-1 Farnham Burlington, Vt 05401-3818 surrey, gU9 7Pt Usa england www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Political rock. – (ashgate popular and folk music series) 1. Rock musicians–Political activity. i. series ii. Pedelty, Mark. iii. Weglarz, kristine. 782.4'2166'0922-dc23 The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Political rock / edited by Mark Pedelty and kristine Weglarz. pages cm. – (ashgate Popular and Folk Music series) includes index. isBn 978-1-4094-4622-4 (hardcover) – isBn 978-1-4094-4623-1 (ebook) – isBn 978-1-4094-7305-3 (epub) 1. Rock music – Political aspects. i. Pedelty, Mark, editor. ii. Weglarz, kristine, editor. Ml3918.R63P65 2013 306.4'8426–dc23 2012044680 isBn 9781409446224 (hbk) isBn 9781409446231 (ebk – PdF) isBn 9781409473053 (ebk – ePUB) V Contents Notes on Contributors vii An Introduction to Political Rock: History, Genre, and Politics xi Mark Pedelty and Kristine Weglarz 1 The Clash and Fugazi: Punk Paths Toward Revolution 1 Mark Andersen 2 Peter Gabriel: The Masked Activist 23 Mark Pedelty 3 Bob Dylan: Someone Else’s Stage 37 Keith Nainby 4 Bruce Cockburn: Canadian, Christian, Conservationist 65 Aaron S. Allen 5 Billy Bragg: Mixing Pop and Politics 91 Douglas M. McLeod 6 Sinéad O’Connor: The Collision of Bodies 107 Marcy R. Chvasta 7 Steve Earle: The Politics of Empathy 131 Mark Mattern 8 Kim Gordon: Ordinary, Feminist, Musician 149 Norma Coates 9 Ani DiFranco: Making Feminist Waves 159 Nancy S. Love vi PoLitiCAL RoCK 10 Pearl Jam: The Conscience of Arena Rock 177 Kristine Weglarz 11 Rage Against the Machine: Militant Poetics 199 Michael LeVan index 213 Notes on Contributors Douglas M. McLeod is the Evjue Centennial Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin. He specializes in political communication, persuasion, and public opinion. He has published more than 100 articles. His research interests focus on social conflict and social protest and the role that mainstream media play in such conflicts. His forthcoming book, Framing the War on Terror: The Struggle Over Civil Liberties in the Age of Terrorism, is being published by Cambridge University Press. He is also a practicing rock musician and has long been a fan of political rock. Michael LeVan is Senior Instructor in Communication and Affiliated Assistant Professor in Humanities and Cultural Studies at the University of South Florida. He is co-founder and general editor of Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies. Kristine Weglarz is an Assistant Professor of Telecommunications and Film at the University of West Florida’s Department of Communication Arts. Her dissertation and research focuses on the political economy of live rock performance, constructions of authenticity, protest rock, mediaphemes, and “liveness” as cultural constructions. She teaches courses on multi-camera electronic video production, popular music and media studies, introduction to mass media, and the political economy of media. Marcy R. Chvasta is a Lecturer in Communication Studies at the California State University, Stanislaus. Marcy specializes in performance studies but teaches a variety of courses across the communication studies curriculum. Her published work includes philosophical treatments of “liveness” and “mediation,” reality television, online journaling, and social activism. Currently, she is working on a consideration of risk as an essential feature of performance. She is a co-founding editor of Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, the first online, open- access, multimedia journal of performance practices and theories. Marcy has also written, performed, and directed numerous stage and screen productions. She is a member of Underscore, a digital performance collective. And, unlike Sinéad O’Connor, Marcy sometimes wants what she hasn’t got. Mark Pedelty is an Associate Professor of Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from UC, Berkeley, in 1993. He is the author of War Stories: The Culture of Foreign Correspondents (Routledge, viii POLiTiCAL ROCk 1995), Musical Ritual in Mexico City: From the Aztec to NAFTA (University of Texas Press, 2004), and Ecomusicology: Rock, Folk, and the Environment (Temple University Press, 2012). Pedelty has also published a number of journal articles dealing with popular music, including “Woody Guthrie and the Columbia River: Propaganda, Art, and Irony,” in Popular Music and Society 31(3): 329–55 (2008). Dr. Pedelty is currently conducting applied research concerning music as environmental communication. Keith Nainby is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Stanislaus. His primary areas of expertise are critical communication pedagogy and philosophy of communication, and he regularly teaches courses in communication and instruction, communication theory, and performance studies. His research explores constitutive models of selfhood and identity, especially the implications of these models for understanding pedagogical relationships. Significant recent publications on these topics include “Philosophical and Methodological Foundations of Communication Education,” in The SAGE Handbook of Communication and instruction, and “Effacement and Metaphor: Searching for the Body in Educational Discourse,” in Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies. Mark Mattern is Professor of Political Science at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio, where he teaches political theory and political economy. He is the author of Acting in Concert: Music, Community, and Political Action (Rutgers University Press, 1998), and other articles and chapters on music, art, and popular culture. He is co-editor, with Nancy S. Love, of Doing Democracy: Activist Art and Cultural Politics (in review). He currently serves as co-editor, with Nancy S. Love, of New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture. He is currently working on a manuscript tentatively entitled Anarchism and Art: Democracy in the Cracks and on the Margins. Nancy S. Love is Professor of Government and Justice Studies at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Professor Love received her AB degree from Kenyon College and her MA and Ph.D from Cornell University. She is the author of Musical Democracy (SUNY Press, 2006), Marx, Nietzsche, and Modernity (Columbia University Press, 1986; reissued 1996), and Understanding Dogmas and Dreams, 2nd edition (CQ Press, 2006), a companion text to her edited reader Dogmas and Dreams: A Reader in Modern Political ideologies, 4th edition (CQ Press, 2010). Her articles and chapters on critical theory and feminist theory appear in numerous journals and anthologies. She is co-editor with Mark Mattern of Doing Democracy: Activist Art and Cultural Politics (under review at SUNY Press). She and Mattern currently co-edit New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture. NOTES ON CONTRibUTORS ix Aaron S. Allen teaches in the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he also serves on the faculty committee for the Environmental Studies Program. After receiving a B.S. in environmental studies and B.A. in music at Tulane University, Aaron earned a Ph.D. at Harvard with a dissertation on the nineteenth-century Italian reception of Beethoven. He co-founded and currently chairs the Ecocriticism Study Group of the American Musicological Society and the Ecomusicology Special Interest Group of the Society for Ethnomusicology, and he is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. Aaron has published and presented papers on campus environmental issues, Beethoven, and ecomusicology. Mark Andersen has done outreach, advocacy, and organizing in inner city DC since the late 1980s. He is the co-author of Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation’s Capital, author of All The Power: Revolution Without illusion, and a contributor to We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet/The Collected interviews, Sober Living For The Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics, and Rad Dad: Dispatches From The Frontiers of Fatherhood. He was a co-founder of punk activist collective Positive Force DC in 1985, the Arthur S. Flemming Community Center in 2003, and senior outreach network We Are Family in 2004. He remains active with those groups and also works with the Justice & Service Committee of St Aloysius Catholic Church, the Social Justice Committee of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, and on the board of directors of the grassroots community organization Northwest One Council. He lives with his beloved Tulin Ozdeger, their son Soren Huseyin, and their two cats Spaatz and Seker in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington DC. Norma Coates is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Don Wright Faculty of Music and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Her publications in journals and anthologies explore a wide range of popular music topics, including gender, television, and age.