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; More relevance than spotlight and applause: Billy Bragg in the British folk tradition, Kieran Cashell; 'Know your rights': punk rock, globalization and human rights, Kevin C. Dunn; Unlocking the silence: Tori Amos, sexual violence and affect, Deborah Finding; Pantomime paranoia in London or, 'look out he's behind you!', John Hutnyk; The Blues, trauma, and public memory: Willie King and the Liberators, Stephen A. King; The aesthetic dimension: cultural politics, human rights, and Hedwig, Stefan Mattessich; The evolution of the political benefit rock album, Neil Nehring; Which music for which catastrophe? The functions of popular music 21st century benefit concerts, Sam O'Connell; From midnight music to civil rights, from bluesology to human rights: Gil Scott-Heron, American Griot, Ian Peddie; Plight of the Redman: XIT, Red power, and the refashioning of American Indian ethnicity, Christopher A. Scales; 'The country we carry in our hearts is waiting': Bruce Springsteen, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the search for human rights in America, David Thurmaier; The vision of possibility: popular music, women and human rights, Sheila Whiteley; Bibliography; Discography; Index.