Popular Music and Human Rights

Popular Music and Human Rights
ISBN-10
1409437582
ISBN-13
9781409437581
Series
Popular Music and Human Rights
Category
Music
Pages
440
Language
English
Published
2011
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Author
Ian Peddie

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. This two-volume set comprises Volume I: British and American Music, and Volume II: World Music.

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