Popular Music and Human Rights: 2 volume set

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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. Cover Volume I: British and American Music Contents List of Contributors Foreword General Editor’s Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1 More Relevance than Spotlight and Applause: Billy Bragg in the British Folk Tradition 2 “Know Your Rights”: Punk Rock, Globalization, and Human Rights 3 Unlocking the Silence: Tori Amos, Sexual Violence, and Affect 4 Pantomime Paranoia in London, or, “Lookout, He’s behind You!” 5 The Blues, Trauma, and Public Memory: Willie King and the Liberators 6 The Aesthetic Dimension: Cultural Politics, Human Rights, and Hedwig 7 The Evolution of the Political Benefit Rock Album 8 Which Music for Which Catastrophe? The Functions of Popular Music Twenty-first Century Benefit Concerts 9 From Midnight Music to Civil Rights, from Bluesology to Human Rights: Gil Scott-Heron, American Griot 10 Plight of the Redman: XIT, Red Power, and the Refashioning of American Indian Ethnicity 11 “The Country We Carry in Our Hearts is Waiting”: Bruce Springsteen, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the Search for Human Rights in America 12 The Vision of Possibility: Popular Music, Women, and Human Rights Bibliography Discography Index Volume II: World Music Contents List of Illustrations List of Contributors Foreword General Editor’s Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Long Played Revolutions: Utopic Narratives, Canzoni d’autore 2 Treaty Now: Popular Music and the Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Contemporary Australia 3 Intense Emotions and Human Rights in Nepal’s Heavy Metal Scene 4 Songs of the In-Between: Remembering in the Land that Memory Forgot 5 How a Music about Death Affirms Life: Middle Eastern Metal and the Return of Music’s Aura 6 The “Dangerous” Folksongs: The Neo-folklore Movement of Occupied Latvia in the 1980s 7 Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Encounters with Popular Music and Human Rights 8 Víctor Jara: The Artist and His Legacy 9 No Country for Young Women: Celtic Music, Dissent, and the Irish Female Body 10 Long Live the Revolution? The Changing Spirit of Chinese Rock 11 Fascist Music from the West: Anti-Rock Campaigns, Problems of National Identity, and Human Rights in the “Closed City” of Soviet Ukraine, 1975-84 Bibliography Discography Index