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Popular Music and Human Rights: 2 volume set - Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series Ian Peddie 1st edition
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Popular Music and Human Rights: 2 volume set - Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
Ian Peddie
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.
440 pages
| Media | Other MISC (Miscellaneous) |
| Released | November 30, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9781409464068 |
| Label | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 222 |
| Dimensions | 241 × 163 × 36 mm · 888 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Peddie, Ian |
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