Popular Music and Human Rights
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7546-6853-4 (ISBN)
Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination and the right to self-legislation have long been at the forefront of popular music's approach to human rights. At a time of such uncertainty and confusion, with human rights currently being violated all over the world, a new and sustained examination of cultural responses to such issues is warranted. In this respect music, which is always produced in a social context, is an extremely useful medium; in its immediacy music has a potency of expression whose reach is long and wide. Contributors to this significant volume cover artists and topics such as Billy Bragg, punk, Fun-da-Mental, Willie King and the Liberators, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the Anti-Death Penalty movement, benefit concerts, benefit albums, Gil Scott-Heron, Bruce Springsteen, Wounded Knee and Native American political resistance, Tori Amos, Joni Mitchell, as well as human rights in relation to feminism. A second volume covers World Music.
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.
Introduction; Long played revolutions: utopic narratives, canzone 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; Popular music and human rights: Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav encounters, Rajko Mursic; 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 1975-1984, Sergei I. Zhuk; Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.8.2011 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7546-6853-3 / 0754668533 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7546-6853-4 / 9780754668534 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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