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

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.