Popular Music and Human Rights

Volume II: World Music
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4094-6405-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 342 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; Long played revolutions: utopic narratives, canzoni 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; Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav encounters with popular music and human rights, Rajko Muršic; 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 1975–84, Sergei I. Zhuk; 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.