The late Michael Scott Cain taught English, literature and popular culture at the college level for more than 40 years. He was an editor for rambles.net, covering jazz, blues and poetry and was the author of seven books of poetry, four novels and several works of nonfiction.

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• Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I. Mississippi Needs Folk Singers1. Background2. Senator Keating Discovers a Crack in the Nation’s Foundation3. The Schizophrenic World of the Protest Song4. Bob Moses Attacks Mississippi5. Here’s to the State of Mississippi6. Carolyn Hester Goes to Mississippi7. Joan Baez Boards the Mississippi Train8. Peter, Paul and Mary9. Bob Dylan: The Reluctant Spokesman10. After the Summer Comes the FallPart II. “Hey, Hey, LBJ, How May Kids Did You Kill Today?”11. The Radicalizing of Tom Hayden12. Lyndon Johnson Fights a War on Two Fronts: In Vietnam and in the Streets13. The Music of the People14. Music and the Prefigurative Culture15. Rise of the Prefigurative Culture16. “Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation”17. Impatience Leads to Escalation18. The Chicago Seven Get Famous19. The New Left Loses Its Credibility20. The Shift in Academia: What Is Relevant?Part III. Burn, Baby, Burn21. Radicalism in Both Politics and Music Dies22. The Death of Music as Revolution23. You Don’t Need a Weatherman…ConclusionChapter NotesBibliographyIndex