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 (33 Downloads) |
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.