Popular Music and Human Rights: Volume II: World Music

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Introduction
Long played revolutions: utopic narratives, canzone d'autore, William Anselmi
Treaty now: popular music and the indigenous struggle for justice in contemporary Australia, Aaron Corn
Intense emotions and human rights in Nepal's heavy metal scene, Paul D. Greene
Songs of the in-between: remembering in the land that memory forgot, Angela Impey
How a music about death affirms life: Middle Eastern metal and the return of music's aura, Mark LeVine
The 'dangerous' folksongs: the neo-folklore movement of occupied Latvia in the 1980s, Valdis Muktupavels
Popular music and human rights: Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav encounters, Rajko Mursic
Victor Jara: the artist and his legacy, John M. Schechter
No country for young women: Celtic music, dissent and the Irish female body, Gerry Smyth
Long live the revolution: the changing spirit of Chinese rock, Andreas Steen
Fascist music from the west: anti-rock campaigns, problems of national identity and human rights in the 'closed city' of Soviet Ukraine 1975-1984, Sergei I. Zhuk
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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. Contributors to this significant volume cover artists and topics such as Billy Bragg, punk, Fun-da-Mental, Willie King and the Liberators, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the Anti-Death Penalty movement, benefit concerts, benefit albums, Gil Scott-Heron, Bruce Springsteen, Wounded Knee and Native American political resistance, Tori Amos, Joni Mitchell, as well as human rights in relation to feminism. A second volume covers World Music.

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