Popular Music and Human Rights

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Popular Music and Human Rights is written by Ian Peddie and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1409494519 (ISBN 10) and 9781409494515 (ISBN 13).

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. This two-volume set comprises Volume I: British and American Music, and Volume II: World Music.