| Popular Music and Human Rights: Volume II: World Music Contributor(s): Peddie, Ian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1409464059 ISBN-13: 9781409464051 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal - Music | Ethnomusicology |
| Dewey: 781.641 |
| LCCN: 2011004394 |
| Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.69 lbs) 218 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |