Julian Fifer is Executive Director of Musicians For Human Rights. As cellist and founder of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, he conceived a method of orchestral music-making using democratic principles and collective leadership. The artistic outcomes have been documented by Deutsche Grammophon on 55 Orpheus recordings.Angela Impey is Professor of Ethnomusicology at SOAS, University of London and co-editor of the Routledge SOAS Studies in Music series. She has published widely on music and social justice in Africa, including the award-winning Song Walking: Women, Music, and Environmental Justice in an African Borderland.Peter G. Kirchschlaeger is Professor of Theological Ethics and Director of the Institute of Social Ethics ISE at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Lucerne as well as Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein. Prior he was Visiting Fellow at Yale University.Manfred Nowak is Professor of International Human Rights Law at the University of Vienna and Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights, a network of some 100 universities in all world regions, based in Venice.George Ulrich is Academic Director of the Global Campus of Human Rights (Venice, Italy) and Professor of Human Rights at the Riga Graduate School of Law. Research interests relate to the philosophy of human rights, global justice, and human rights and development cooperation.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I Fundamentals on Human Rights and Music1 What Are Human Rights?Manfred NowakVoice: Andra Matei (Romania/France)Voice: Sajad Sepehri (Iran/stateless)2 Why Music and Human Rights?Julian FiferVoice: Saba Anglana (Somalia/Ethiopia/Italy)3 The Human Right to MusicNoelle Higgins and Michael O’FlahertyVoice: Ramzi Aburedwan (Palestine)4 Music Education: Child Development and Human RightsSteven J. Holochwost and Elizabeth Stuk5 Censorship of MusicKoen De FeyterVoice: Srirak Plipat (Thailand/Norway)6 The Right to Let Culture DieTrevor Reed7 Music Sustainability, Human Rights, and Future JusticeCatherine GrantVoice: Joy-Leilani Garbutt (US)Part II Music in Pursuit of Human Rights8 Orality and the Poetics of Forgiveness in South SudanAngela Impey9 Girls Can Dance Xigubu, Too: An Embodied Response to Gender-Based Violence in MozambiqueKaren Boswall and Jane K. CowanVoice: Ani Zonneveld (Malaysia/US)10 Reimagine: The Role of Popular Music in Overcoming Homophobia in Sub-Saharan Anglophone AfricaFrans ViljoenVoice: Roshnie Moonsammy (South Africa)11 Rock Nacional in Argentina: Resistance to Censorship and Cultural Repression During the Military Dictatorship (1976–1983)Diego Lopez and Veronica GomezVoice: Katia Chornik (Chile/UK) for Victor Jara (Chile)Voice: Erich Schneiderman (US) for Ramy Essam (Egypt/Sweden) and Shady Habash (Egypt)12 Silence, Complicity, and Forgotten Voices HeardKelly Hall-TompkinsVoice: Katy Ambrose (US)Voice: Weston Sprott (US)13 Reinvoking Gran Bwa (Great Forest): Music, Environmental Justice, and a Vodou-Inspired Mission to Plant Trees Across HaitiRebecca Dirksen14 Music and Human Rights: A Perspective From the Humanitarian SectorTeresa HanleyVoice: Laura Hassler (based in the Netherlands)15 Music and the Arts as Healing Power During and After the Siege of SarajevoManfred NowakVoice: Merima Ključo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)16 Claiming Human Rights in Iraq: Reflections on the Creation of a Musicians’ Collective to Advance Freedom of Expression, Gender Equality, and Cultural ParticipationLuca ChiavinatoVoice: Ibrahim Salama (Egypt)Voice: Iara Lee (Brazil/Korea/US)17 Music in Contexts of Incarceration: Perspectives From Javanese Gamelan PerformanceMaria MendonçaVoice: Molly Carr (US)18 Music Therapy and Human Rights Issues in the Clinic and the CommunityBrynjulf StigeVoice: Kanayo Ueda (Japan)Part III Music as a Means of Violating Human Rights19 Music Torture in the ‘War on Terror’Manfred Nowak20 Music, Terror, and Civilizing Projects in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous RegionRachel Harris and Aziz Isa Elkun21 Weaponized Music: Schubert, Interrogation, and Memory in Dorfman’s La muerte y la doncellaKatja Stroke-Adolphe22 Sounds of a Caste-Ending Cultural Movement in Western IndiaRasika AjotikarVoice: Casteless Collective (India)Part IV Human Rights and Music: Intrinsic Resonances23 The Sound of Human Rights: Wordless Music That Speaks for HumanityBruce Adolphe24 Adorno Revisited: Aesthetic Theory, Politics, and Human RightsGeorge UlrichVoice: Lukas Ligeti (Austria/US)25 Decoding Viktor Ullmann’s Last Piano Sonata Through Legal MethodologyMichael WienerVoice: Jeff Janeczko (US)26 Music and a ‘Universal Culture of Human Rights’Peter G. Kirchschlaeger27 Don’t Just Sing About It: Choral Music in the Pursuit of Human RightsJustin Jalea and Alexander Lloyd BlakeVoice: David A. McDonald (US)28 Human Rights and the Professional Musician in the Twenty-First CenturyJulian FiferVoice: Mai Khôi (Vietnam)EpilogueInterview with Alessio AllegriniAlessio Allegrini and George Ulrich