Summary
T.V. Reed’s The Art of Protest (Routledge, 2005) is a cultural-studies analysis of how activism and art (music, visual arts, performance, poetry) intersect to create campaign identity. The book treats culture-making as a core movement tactic.
Body
Reed analyzes the cultural production of movements — songs, slogans, imagery, performance — and the role of cultural artifacts in movement identity and durability. The book is widely cited in academic work on movement culture and the humanities-flank of protest studies. [source: art-of-protest]
Use it for
Citing the cultural-studies base for art-meets-activism; situating cultural tactics in academic literature.