ABSTRACT
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 wellbeing 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 29 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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I Fundamentals on Human Rights and Music
1 What Are Human Rights?
Manfred Nowak
Voice: Andra Matei (Romania/France)
Voice: Sajad Sepehri (Iran/stateless)
2 Why Music and Human Rights?
Julian Fifer
Voice: Saba Anglana (Somalia/Ethiopia/Italy)
3 The Human Right to Music
Noelle Higgins and Michael O’Flaherty
Voice: Ramzi Aburedwan (Palestine)
4 Music Education: Child Development and Human Rights
Steven J. Holochwost and Elizabeth Stuk
5 Censorship of Music
Koen De Feyter
Voice: Srirak Plipat (Thailand/Norway)
6 The Right to Let Culture Die
Trevor Reed
7 Music Sustainability, Human Rights, and Future Justice
Catherine Grant
Voice: Joy-Leilani Garbutt (US)
Part II Music in Pursuit of Human Rights
8 Orality and the Poetics of Forgiveness in South Sudan
Angela Impey
9 Girls Can Dance Xigubu, Too: An Embodied Response to Gender-Based Violence in Mozambique
Karen Boswall and Jane K. Cowan
Voice: Ani Zonneveld (Malaysia/US)
10 Reimagine: The Role of Popular Music in Overcoming Homophobia in Sub-Saharan Anglophone Africa
Frans Viljoen
Voice: Roshnie Moonsammy (South Africa)
11 Rock Nacional in Argentina: Resistance to Censorship and Cultural Repression During the Military Dictatorship (1976–1983)
Diego Lopez and Veronica Gomez
Voice: Katia Chornik (Chile/UK) for Victor Jara (Chile)
Voice: Erich Schneiderman (US) for Ramy Essam (Egypt/Sweden) and Shady Habash (Egypt)
12 Silence, Complicity, and Forgotten Voices Heard
Kelly Hall-Tompkins
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
Rebecca Dirksen
14 Music and Human Rights: A Perspective From the Humanitarian Sector
Teresa Hanley
Voice: Laura Hassler (based in the Netherlands)
15 Music and the Arts as Healing Power During and After the Siege of Sarajevo
Manfred Nowak
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
Luca Chiavinato
Voice: Ibrahim Salama (Egypt)
Voice: Iara Lee (Brazil/Korea/US)
17 Music in Contexts of Incarceration: Perspectives From Javanese Gamelan Performance
Maria Mendonça
Voice: Molly Carr (US)
18 Music Therapy and Human Rights Issues in the Clinic and the Community
Brynjulf Stige
Voice: Kanayo Ueda (Japan)
Part III Music as a Means of Violating Human Rights
19 Music Torture in the ‘War on Terror’
Manfred Nowak
20 Music, Terror, and Civilizing Projects in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Rachel Harris and Aziz Isa Elkun
21 Weaponized Music: Schubert, Interrogation, and Memory in Dorfman’s La muerte y la doncella
Katja Stroke-Adolphe
22 Sounds of a Caste-Ending Cultural Movement in Western India
Rasika Ajotikar
Voice: Casteless Collective (India)
Part IV Human Rights and Music: Intrinsic Resonances
23 The Sound of Human Rights: Wordless Music That Speaks for Humanity
Bruce Adolphe
24 Adorno Revisited: Aesthetic Theory, Politics, and Human Rights
George Ulrich
Voice: Lukas Ligeti (Austria/US)
25 Decoding Viktor Ullmann’s Last Piano Sonata Through Legal Methodology
Michael Wiener
Voice: Jeff Janeczko (US)
26 Music and a ‘Universal Culture of Human Rights’
Peter G. Kirchschlaeger
27 Don’t Just Sing About It: Choral Music in the Pursuit of Human Rights
Justin Jalea and Alexander Lloyd Blake
Voice: David A. McDonald (US)
28 Human Rights and the Professional Musician in the Twenty-First Century
Julian Fifer
Voice: Mai Khôi (Vietnam)
Epilogue
Interview with Alessio Allegrini
Alessio Allegrini and George Ulrich
