Music and Protest

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. More recently he edited and contributed to the volumes Popular Music and Human Rights, Volume I: British and American Music and Popular Music and Human Rights, Volume II: World Music (Ashgate Publishing, 2010).

Contents: Introduction; Part I The Social Discourses of Music: La gaita zuliana: music and the politics of protest in Venezuela, Light Carruyo; Feed the world, free the world..., Robin Denselow; 'Scream against the sky': Japanese avant-garde music in the 60s, Yayoi Uno Everett; Central American revolutionary music, Fred Judson; Ska and the roots of Rastafarian musical protest, Stephen A. King; Playing at poverty: the music hall and the staging of the working class, Ian Peddie. Part II Resistance, Struggle and Conflict: Irony, deception, and political culture in the works of Dmitri Shostakovich, Jennifer Gerstel; Iran: 'like a flower growing in the middle of the desert', Mark LeVine; Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav encounters with popular music and human rights, Rajko MurÅ¡ic; Shooting and crying: the emergence of protest in Israeli popular music, Scott Streiner; Moving in decency: the music and radical politics of Cornelius Cardew, Timothy D. Taylor. Part III The Politics Within: The language of the young people: rap, urban culture and protest in Tanzania, José Arturo Saavedra Casco; 'Rocking the boat' in South Africa? Voëlvry music and Afrikaans anti-apartheid social protest in the 1980s, Albert Grundlingh; Mühsam, Brecht, Eisler, and the 20th-century revolutionary heritage, David Robb; Fascist music from the West: anti-rock campaigns, problems of national identity, and human rights in the 'closed city' of Soviet Ukraine, 1975-84, Sergei I. Zhuk. Part IV Local Struggles, Global Impacts: The vision of possibility: popular music, women and human rights, Sheila Whiteley; Rap in Indonesian youth music of the 1990s: 'globalization', 'outlaw genres' and social protest, Michael Bodden; The bitter wounding: the lament as social protest in rural Greece, Anna Caraveli; Treaty now: popular music and the indigenous struggle for justice in contemporary Australia, Aaron Corn; 'My dirty stream': Pete Seeger, American folk music, and environmental protest, David Ingram; Hybridity, A