How America Has Sung About Freedom / Masaru Kono

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Society
[Content introduction]
The United States has made the concept of freedom its foundation for existence since its independence.
The national anthem is inscribed with the pride of winning freedom after the war.
How ordinary people living in the United States feel about freedom in their daily lives, what they worry about it, and how they try to practice freedom.
This book follows the tracks of popular music works by Bob Dee Run, Joni Mitchell, Richie ヘヴンス, Eagles, Neil Young, and Martina Mcbride.
Many masterpieces have touched people's hearts, expressing resistance to racism, criticism of the administration, perspectives on the socially vulnerable, accusations of domestic violence, and a desire to live "the true self."
The author, who is highly regarded in Europe and the United States as a demonstrative political scientist, discusses American freedom by mixing his own lyric text analysis and interviews with current musicians.
Contents
Chapter 1 The Concept of Freedom and Popular Music
Chapter 2 How Freedom Appears in Hit Songs
Text Analysis of Lyrics (1960 - 2011)
Chapter 3 Freedom Reflected in Lyrics from Different Ages
Chapter 4 Freedom Sung by the Legend
Chapter 5 Street Musicians Inherit Freedom
Chapter 6 Freedom Sung by the Hoover Institute
Stanford University (Ph.D.), Assistant Professor of British Columbia University, National Fellow of the Hoover Institute, Assistant Professor of Aoyama Gakuin University, and Professor of Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University since 2003.
Major authors include Japan's Postwar Party Politics (Princeton University Press), 『 Seido 』 (Tokyo University Press), 『 Seido 』 (Central Koron-Shinsha), National Fellow of the Hoover Institute, Assistant Professor of the University of British Columbia, and Central Koron-Shinsha).
Born in Tokyo in 1962.
Graduated from the Faculty of Law at Sophia University.
Master of International Relations at Yale University.
Freedom from Different Ages
Chapter 4 Freedom Sung by the Legend