Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights

<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights</em> 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.</p> <p>Table of Contents</p><p>Introduction</p><p>Part I Fundamentals on Human Rights and Music</p><p>1 What Are Human Rights?</p><p>Manfred Nowak</p><p>Voice: Andra Matei (Romania/France)</p><p>Voice: Sajad Sepehri (Iran/stateless)</p><p>2 Why Music and Human Rights?</p><p>Julian Fifer</p><p>Voice: Saba Anglana (Somalia/Ethiopia/Italy)</p><p>3 The Human Right to Music</p><p>Noelle Higgins and Michael O’Flaherty</p><p>Voice: Ramzi Aburedwan (Palestine)</p><p>4 Music Education: Child Development and Human Rights</p><p>Steven J. Holochwost and Elizabeth Stuk</p><p>5 Censorship of Music</p><p>Koen De Feyter</p><p>Voice: Srirak Plipat (Thailand/Norway)</p><p>6 The Right to Let Culture Die</p><p>Trevor Reed</p><p>7 Music Sustainability, Human Rights, and Future Justice</p><p>Catherine Grant</p><p>Voice: Joy-Leilani Garbutt (US)</p><p>Part II Music in Pursuit of Human Rights</p><p>8 Orality and the Poetics of Forgiveness in South Sudan</p><p>Angela Impey</p><p>9 Girls Can Dance Xigubu, Too: An Embodied Response to Gender-Based Violence in Mozambique</p><p>Karen Boswall and Jane K. Cowan</p><p>Voice: Ani Zonneveld (Malaysia/US)</p><p>10 Reimagine: The Role of Popular Music in Overcoming Homophobia in Sub-Saharan Anglophone Africa</p><p>Frans Viljoen</p><p>Voice: Roshnie Moonsammy (South Africa)</p><p>11 <i>Rock Nacional </i>in Argentina: Resistance to Censorship and Cultural Repression During the Military Dictatorship (1976–1983)</p><p>Diego Lopez and Veronica Gomez</p><p>Voice: Katia Chornik (Chile/UK) for Victor Jara (Chile)</p><p>Voice: Erich Schneiderman (US) for Ramy Essam (Egypt/Sweden) and Shady Habash (Egypt)</p><p>12 Silence, Complicity, and Forgotten Voices Heard</p><p>Kelly Hall-Tompkins</p><p>Voice: Katy Ambrose (US)</p><p>Voice: Weston Sprott (US)</p><p>13 Reinvoking Gran Bwa (Great Forest): Music, Environmental Justice, and a Vodou-Inspired Mission to Plant Trees Across Haiti</p><p>Rebecca Dirksen</p><p>14 Music and Human Rights: A Perspective From the Humanitarian Sector</p><p>Teresa Hanley</p><p>Voice: Laura Hassler (based in the Netherlands)</p><p>15 Music and the Arts as Healing Power During and After the Siege of Sarajevo</p><p>Manfred Nowak</p><p>Voice: Merima Ključo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)</p><p>16 Claiming Human Rights in Iraq: Reflections on the Creation of a Musicians’ Collective to Advance Freedom of Expression, Gender Equality, and Cultural Participation</p><p>Luca Chiavinato</p><p>Voice: Ibrahim Salama (Egypt)</p><p>Voice: Iara Lee (Brazil/Korea/US)</p><p>17 Music in Contexts of Incarceration: Perspectives From Javanese Gamelan Performance</p><p>Maria Mendonça</p><p>Voice: Molly Carr (US)</p><p>18 Music Therapy and Human Rights Issues in the Clinic and the Community</p><p>Brynjulf Stige</p><p>Voice: Kanayo Ueda (Japan)</p><p>Part III Music as a Means of Violating Human Rights</p><p>19 Music Torture in the ‘War on Terror’</p><p>Manfred Nowak</p><p>20 Music, Terror, and Civilizing Projects in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region</p><p>Rachel Harris and Aziz Isa Elkun</p><p>21 Weaponized Music: Schubert, Interrogation, and Memory in Dorfman’s <i>La muerte y la doncella</i></p><p>Katja Stroke-Adolphe</p><p>22 Sounds of a Caste-Ending Cultural Movement in Western India</p><p>Rasika Ajotikar</p><p>Voice: Casteless Collective (India)</p><p>Part IV Human Rights and Music: Intrinsic Resonances</p><p>23 The Sound of Human Rights: Wordless Music That Speaks for Humanity</p><p>Bruce Adolphe</p><p>24 Adorno Revisited: Aesthetic Theory, Politics, and Human Rights</p><p>George Ulrich</p><p>Voice: Lukas Ligeti (Austria/US)</p><p>25 Decoding Viktor Ullmann’s Last Piano Sonata Through Legal Methodology</p><p>Michael Wiener</p><p>Voice: Jeff Janeczko (US)</p><p>26 Music and a ‘Universal Culture of Human Rights’</p><p>Peter G. Kirchschlaeger</p><p>27 Don’t Just Sing About It: Choral Music in the Pursuit of Human Rights</p><p>Justin Jalea and Alexander Lloyd Blake</p><p>Voice: David A. McDonald (US)</p><p>28 Human Rights and the Professional Musician in the Twenty-First Century</p><p>Julian Fifer</p><p>Voice: Mai Khôi (Vietnam)</p><p>Epilogue</p><p>Interview with Alessio Allegrini</p><p>Alessio Allegrini and George Ulrich</p>