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Ian Peddie - Popular Music and Human Rights, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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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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Ian Peddie teaches English and Cultural Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University. His edited collection, The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest (Ashgate), a finalist in the Association for Recorded Sound Collections book of the year, was published in 2006. He is an avowed humanist, and one of the harmonizing themes in his work is the way in which human interaction is governed by a cohesive inequality. He has published numerous essays on authors such as Irvine Welsh, Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, and Thomas McGrath, as well as on topics such as class, poverty, and radicalism. These topics inform his approach to popular music, where he has written on Led Zeppelin, Goldie, and Billy Bragg.

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'This wide-ranging book will be welcomed by any who are interested in the social context and social roles of music. With contributions ranging from the neo-folklore movement in Latvia to heavy metal in Nepal to Celtic music in Ireland and Fascist music in Soviet Ukraine. This intelligent volume is brimming with insights.' Sabrina P. Ramet, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway 'At the heart of this volume is the collective conviction of its contributors that popular music does critical cultural work at the frontline of struggles for human rights throughout the world. When we listen to the musicians whose voices and struggles are gathered in the chapters of the book, we experience narratives of the past that persist into the present, we enter the borderlands where resistance finds no resolution. As popular music works for and with human rights - in the reformulations of tradition from Asia to Australia, in the political folksongs in the Balkans and the Baltic states, through rock music from Africa to the Middle East, at Europe's margins collapsing in upon its centers, and in the anthems of singer-songwriters in South America and the Mediterranean - popular music transcends even its traditional role as the voice of the people: It empowers the people - and us - to engage with the struggle for human rights.' Philip V. Bohlman, The University of Chicago, USA

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