Author : Ian Peddie
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409464040
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Book Synopsis Popular Music and Human Rights by : Ian Peddie
Download or read book Popular Music and Human Rights written by Ian Peddie and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 225 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 whose reach is long and wide.