Popular Music and Human Rights: British and American Music

Popular Music and Human Rights: British and American Music
ISBN-10
1409464040
ISBN-13
9781409464044
Series
Popular Music and Human Rights
Category
Music
Pages
225
Language
English
Published
2012-11-01
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Author
Ian Peddie

Description

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.

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