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Musical responses to oppression and alienation: Blues, spirituals, secular thrash, and Christian thrash metal music

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Brown, C.M. Musical responses to oppression and alienation: Blues, spirituals, secular thrash, and Christian thrash metal music. Int J Polit Cult Soc 8, 439–452 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02142894

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