Popular Music and Human Rights

2 volume set

Ian Peddie (Herausgeber)

Media-Kombination

222 Seiten

2012
Routledge
978-1-4094-6406-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

Contents: Volume I: 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. Volume II: 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 Mursic; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.11.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 234 mm
• Gewicht: 880 g
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• ISBN-10: 1-4094-6406-7 / 1409464067
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4094-6406-8 / 9781409464068
• Zustand: Neuware