Popular Music and Human Rights [electronic resource] : (Two-volume set)

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peddie, Ian.

Series:

Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Popular music--Social aspects.

Local Subjects:

Human rights.

Popular music--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (441 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 it

Contents:

CONTENTS; List of Contributors; Foreword; General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 More Relevance than Spotlight and Applause: Billy Bragg in theBritish Folk Tradition; 2 Know Your Rights": Punk Rock, Globalization, and Human Rights; 3 Unlocking the Silence: Tori Amos, Sexual Violence, and Affect; 4 Pantomime Paranoia in London, or, "Lookout, He's behind you!"; 5 The Blues, Trauma, and Public Memory: Willie King and the Liberators; 6 The Aesthetic Dimension: Cultural Politics, Human Rights, and Hedwig; 7 The Evolution of the Political Benefit Rock Album

8 Which Music for Which Catastrophe? The Functions of Popular Music Twenty-first Century Benefit Concerts9 From Midnight Music to Civil Rights, from Bluesology toHuman Rights: Gil Scott-Heron, American Griot; 10 Plight of the Redman: XIT, Red Power, and the Refashioning of American Indian Ethnicity; 11 "The Country We Carry in Our Hearts is Waiting": Bruce Springsteen, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the Search for Human Rights in America; 12 The Vision of Possibility: Popular Music, Women, and Human Rights; Bibliography; Discography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC:

745865804