Music and Cultural Rights - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252076621 ISBN 13: 9780252076626

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2009

Synopsis

Framing timely and pressing questions concerning music and cultural rights, this collection illustrates the ways in which music - as a cultural practice, a commercial product, and an aesthetic form - has become enmeshed in debates about human rights, international law, and struggles for social justice. The essays in this volume examine how interpretations of cultural rights vary across societies; how definitions of rights have evolved; and how rights have been invoked in relation to social struggles over cultural access, use, representation, and ownership. The individual case studies, many of them based on ethnographic field research, demonstrate how musical aspects of cultural rights play out in specific cultural contexts, including the Philippines, China, Hawaii, Peru, Ukraine, and Brazil.

About this title

Review:

"Illuminating and thought provoking. Music and Cultural Rights will challenge musicians, music scholars, and music educators to reexamine their preconceived notions of culture, music's purpose within culture, and the social responsibilities that come when using this music."--Music Educators Journal

From the Author:

Andrew N. Weintraub is an associate professor of music at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java. Bell Yung is a professor of music, the former director of the Asian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh, and the author of The Last of China's Literati: The Music, Poetry, and Life of Tsar Teh-yun.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0252076621
• ISBN 13: 9780252076626
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Weintraub Andrew N., Yung Bell