Rock for Change

Peter Grant is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Charity Effectiveness at Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London, UK. He is a former trustee of the Amy Winehouse Foundation and is now a director of the Foundation’s trading company. His previous books include Philanthropy and Voluntary Action in the First World War (2014) and National Myth and the First World War in Modern Popular Music (2016).Nick Baxter-Moore is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film, Brock University, Canada. He was co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor (2019).

• List of Contributors Introduction Nick Baxter-Moore (Brock University, Canada) and Peter Grant (University of London, UK)Part I: Mega-events1. “Now won't you lend your hand?”: Organization and Legacy of the Concert for BangladeshDavid Wright (Misericordia University, USA)2. The White Band's Burden: Live Aid, Popular Culture, and Humanitarian Philanthropy in the 1980sAndrew Jones (The Conference Board, USA)3. “Get Back to Where You Once Belonged”: Nostalgia, 9/11, and The Concert for New York CityKip Pegley (Queen’s University, Canada)Part II: Major Events4. Performance and Meaning in Benefit Concerts: Genre, Authenticity, and Place (two charity fund-raising live concert performances in Glasgow)J. Mark Percival (Queen Margaret University, UK)5. You are Us: Micro Nationalities and Narratives of Belonging in Three New Zealand Fundraising ConcertsKirsten Zemke (Waipapa Taumata Rau, Aotearoa) & Jared Mackley-Crump (Independent Scholar, New Zealand)6. The Bridge School Benefit Concert: A Song for the Kids on the Side of the StageGeorge Plasketes (Auburn University, USA)Part III: Campaigns7. “Black and white unite and fight”: Rock Against Racism Concerts in the Late 1970sJeremy Tranmer (University of Lorraine, France)8. “It’s Sheep We’re Up Against”: The Shambolic Indie Rock Politics of Red WedgeScott Henderson (Trent University, Canada)9. The Punk Not-For-Profit Pipeline: The Ethos of Punk Benefit ConcertsDavid Ensminger (Lee College, USA)Part IV: Variations on a Theme10. Music and Disasters: Concerts as Commemorative EventsHeather Sparling (Cape Breton University, Canada) & Chris McDonald (Cape Breton University, Canada)11. Wattstax: Celebrity, Promotion, Mediation, and the Benefit Concert FilmHeather McIntosh (Minnesota State University, USA)12. Making Volunteering Fashionable? RockCorps, Volunteering, and the Dilemma of IncentivizationJustin Davis Smith (Bayes Business School, UK)PostscriptNick Baxter-Moore (Brock University, Canada) and Peter Grant (University of London, UK)Index