Rock for Change : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Benefit Concert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baxter-Moore, Nicolas, editor.

Grant, Peter, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Benefit performances.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Explores the role that benefit concerts, tours, and recordings have and have had in mobilizing popular music and musicians to raise money or awareness to combat social problems, both human and natural.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction Nick Baxter-Moore and Peter Grant

Part One Mega-Events

1 "Now Won't You Lend Your Hand?": Organization and Legacy of the Concert for Bangladesh David C. Wright, Jr.

2 The White Band's Burden: Live Aid, Popular Culture, and Humanitarian Philanthropy in the 1980s Andrew Jones

3 "Get Back to Where You Once Belonged": Nostalgia, 9/11, and the Concert for New York City Kip Pegley

Part Two Major Events

4 Performance and Meaning in Benefit Concerts: Genre, Authenticity, and Place J. Mark Percival

5 You Are Us: Micro Nationalities and Narratives of Belonging in Three New Zealand Fundraising Concerts Kirsten Zemke and Jared Mackley-Crump

6 The Bridge School Benefit Concert: A Song for the Kids on the Side of the Stage George Plasketes

Part Three Campaigns

7 "Black and White Unite and Fight": Rock Against Racism Concerts in the Late 1970s Jeremy Tranmer

8 "It's Sheep We're Up Against": The Shambolic Indie Rock Politics of Red Wedge Scott Henderson

9 The Punk Not-for-Profit Pipeline: The Ethos of Punk Benefit Concerts David A. Ensminger

Part Four Variations on a Theme

10 Music and Disasters: Concerts as Commemorative Events Heather Sparling and Chris McDonald

11 Wattstax: Celebrity, Promotion, Mediation, and the Benefit Concert Film Heather McIntosh

12 Making Volunteering Fashionable? RockCorps, Volunteering, and the Dilemma of Incentivization Justin Davis Smith

Postscript Peter Grant and Nick Baxter-Moore

Index.

ISBN:

979-88-8188-749-0

979-82-16-26091-2

1-9787-6388-3

OCLC:

1581931690