Popular Music and Human Rights

2 volume set
Neuauflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-7546-6852-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 564 g

Reihe: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peddie, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors; Foreword; General Editor’s Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction 1 More Relevance than Spotlight and Applause: Billy Bragg in the British 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 Concerts 9 From Midnight Music to Civil Rights, from Bluesology to Human 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

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Peddie has taught at Florida Gulf Coast University, the University of Sydney, and West Texas A&M University. His edited collection, The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest (Ashgate), a finalist in the Association for Recorded Sound Collections book of the year, was published in 2006. He is an avowed humanist, and one of the harmonizing themes in his work is the way in which human interaction is governed by a cohesive inequality, and these sentiments inform his book The Hunted Revolutionaries: Narrating Class in Twentieth Century American Literature (VDM Verlag, 2009).

He has published numerous essays on authors such as Irvine Welsh, Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, and Thomas McGrath, as well as on topics such as class, poverty, and radicalism. These topics influence his approach to popular music, where he has written on Led Zeppelin, Goldie, and Billy Bragg.