Popular Music and Human Rights

Ian Peddie has taught at Florida Gulf Coast University, the University of Sydney, and West Texas A&M University. His books include The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest (Ashgate, 2006) and a study of class in American literature. He has published widely on twentieth-century British and American culture. He is currently editing a collection on music and protest since 1900.

Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Long played revolutions: utopic narratives, canzoni d'autore, William Anselmi; Treaty now: popular music and the indigenous struggle for justice in contemporary Australia, Aaron Corn; Intense emotions and human rights in Nepal's heavy metal scene, Paul D. Greene; Songs of the in-between: remembering in the land that memory forgot, Angela Impey; How a music about death affirms life: Middle Eastern metal and the return of music's aura, Mark LeVine; The 'dangerous' folksongs: the neo-folklore movement of occupied Latvia in the 1980s, Valdis Muktupavels; Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav encounters with popular music and human rights, Rajko MurA!ic; Victor Jara: the artist and his legacy, John M. Schechter; No country for young women: Celtic music, dissent and the Irish female body, Gerry Smyth; Long live the revolution? The changing spirit of Chinese rock, Andreas Steen; Fascist music from the West: anti-rock campaigns, problems of national identity and human rights in the 'closed city' of Soviet Ukraine 1975a "84, Sergei I. Zhuk; Bibliography; Discography; Index.