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POPULAR MUSIC AND HUMAN RIGHTS
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Volume I |
By: |
Professor Ian Peddie (Editor), Professor Derek B. Scott, Professor Stan Hawkins |
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Hardback |
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ISBN 10: |
0754668525 |
ISBN 13: |
9780754668527 |
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Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
Pub. date: |
17 August, 2011 |
Series: |
Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series |
Pages: |
222 |
Description: |
Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. This title includes contributors that 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, and, more. |
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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. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Ashgate Publishing Limited |
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