The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights is a collection of case studies spanning a wide range of concerns about music and human rights in response to intensifying challenges to the well-being of individuals, peoples, and the planet. It brings forward the expertise of academic researchers, lawyers, human rights practitioners, and performing musicians who offer critical reflection on how their work might identify, inform, or advance mutual interests in their respective fields. The book is comprised of 28 chapters, interspersed with 23 ‘voices’ – portraits that focus on individuals’ intimate experiences with music in the defence or advancement of human rights – and explores the following four themes: 1) Fundamentals on music and human rights; 2) Music in pursuit of human rights; 3) Music as a means of violating human rights; 4) Human rights and music: intrinsic resonances.
Author(s): Julian Fifer, Angela Impey, Peter G. Kirchschlaeger, Manfred Nowak, George Ulrich
Series: SOAS Studies in Music
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 548
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Part I Fundamentals on Human Rights and Music
1 What Are Human Rights?
VOICE: Andra Matei (Romania/France)
VOICE: Sajad Sepehri (Iran/stateless)
2 Why Music and Human Rights?
VOICE: Saba Anglana (Somalia/Ethiopia/Italy)
3 The Human Right to Music
VOICE: Ramzi Aburedwan (Palestine)
4 Music Education: Child Development and Human Rights
5 Censorship of Music
VOICE: Srirak Plipat (Thailand/Norway)
6 The Right to Let Culture Die
7 Music Sustainability, Human Rights, and Future Justice
VOICE: Joy-Leilani Garbutt (US)
Part II Music in Pursuit of Human Rights
8 Orality and the Poetics of Forgiveness in South Sudan
9 Girls Can Dance Xigubu, Too: An Embodied Response to Gender-Based Violence in Mozambique
VOICE: Ani Zonneveld (Malaysia/US)
10 Reimagine: The Role of Popular Music in Overcoming Homophobia in Sub-Saharan Anglophone Africa
VOICE: Roshnie Moonsammy (South Africa)
11 Rock Nacional in Argentina: Resistance to Censorship and Cultural Repression During the Military Dictatorship (1976–1983)
VOICE: Víctor Jara (Chile)
VOICE: Ramy Essam (Egypt/Sweden) and Shady Habash (Egypt)
12 Silence, Complicity, and Forgotten Voices Heard
VOICE: Katy Ambrose (US)
VOICE: Weston Sprott (US)
13 Reinvoking Gran Bwa (Great Forest): Music, Environmental Justice, and a Vodou-Inspired Mission to Plant Trees Across Haiti
14 Music and Human Rights: A Perspective from the Humanitarian Sector
VOICE: Laura Hassler (based in the Netherlands)
15 Music and the Arts as Healing Power During and After the Siege of Sarajevo
VOICE: Merima Ključo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
16 Claiming Human Rights in Iraq: Reflections on the Creation of a Musicians’ Collective to Advance Freedom of Expression, Gender Equality, and Cultural Participation
VOICE: Ibrahim Salama (Egypt)
VOICE: Iara Lee (Brazil/Korea/US)
17 Music in Contexts of Incarceration: Perspectives From Javanese Gamelan Performance
VOICE: Molly Carr (US)
18 Music Therapy and Human Rights Issues in the Clinic and the Community
VOICE: Kanayo Ueda (Japan)
Part III Music as a Means of Violating Human Rights
19 Music Torture in the ‘War on Terror’
20 Music, Terror, and Civilizing Projects in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
21 Weaponized Music: Schubert, Interrogation, and Memory in Dorfman’s La muerte y la doncella
22 Sounds of a Caste-Ending Cultural Movement in Western India
VOICE: The Casteless Collective (India)
Part IV Human Rights and Music: Intrinsic Resonances
23 The Sound of Human Rights: Wordless Music That Speaks for Humanity
24 Adorno Revisited: Aesthetic Theory, Politics, and Human Rights
VOICE: Lukas Ligeti (Austria/US)
25 Decoding Viktor Ullmann’s Last Piano Sonata Through Legal Methodology
VOICE: Jeff Janeczko (US)
26 Music and a ‘Universal Culture of Human Rights’
27 Don’t Just Sing About It: Choral Music in the Pursuit of Human Rights
VOICE: David A. McDonald (US)
28 Human Rights and the Professional Musician in the Twenty-First Century
VOICE: Mai Khôi (Vietnam)
Epilogue: Interview with Alessio Allegrini
Index
