Music and Cultural Rights

Name: Music and Cultural Rights
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ISBN: 9780252076626

ISBN-10: 0252076621

ISBN-13: 9780252076626

Edition: 2009

Authors: Andrew N. Weintraub, Bell Yung, Nimrod Baranovitch, Adriana Helbig, Javier F. Leï¿½n

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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…

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List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 10/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100

ADRIANA HELBIG is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Pittsburgh.



Preface



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Agency and Voice: The Philippines at the 1998 Smithsonian Folklife Festival




Use and Ownership: Folk Music in the People's Republic of China




Access and Control: A Key to Reclaiming the Right to Construct Hawaiian History




National Patrimony and Cultural Policy: The Case of the Afroperuvian Cajï¿½n




Historical Legacy and the Contemporary World: UNESCO and China's Qin Music in the Twenty-first Century




Representation and Intracultural Dynamics: Romani Musicians and Cultural Rights Discourse in Ukraine




Representing Tibet in the Global Cultural Market: The Case of Chinese-Tibetan Musician Han Hong




Music and Human Rights: The AfroReggae Cultural Group and the Youth from the Favelas as Responses to Violence in Brazil




In Search of a Cross-Cultural Legal Framework: Indigenous Musics as a Worldwide Commodity



Glossary of Chinese Characters


Bibliography


Contributors


Index