Popular Music and Human Rights: World music
Author | : Ian Peddie |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2011 |
ISBN-10 | : 0754668533 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780754668534 |
Rating | : 4/5 (534 Downloads) |
Download or read book Popular Music and Human Rights: World music written by Ian Peddie and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 that reaches far and wide.