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. These essays 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 demonstrate how musical aspects of cultural rights play out in specific cultural contexts, including the Philippines, China, Hawaii, Peru, Ukraine, and Brazil.
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Introduction / Andrew N. Weintraub. Agency and voice : the Philippines at the 1998 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Ricardo D. Trimillos. Use and ownership : folk music in the People's Republic of China / Helen Rees. Access and control : a key to reclaiming the right to construct Hawaiian history / Amy Kuʻuleialoha Stillman. National patrimony and cultural policy : the case of the Afroperuvian cajón / Javier F. León. Historical legacy and the contemporary world : UNESCO and China's qin music in the twenty-first century / Bell Yung. Representation and intracultural dynamics : Romani musicians and cultural rights discourse in Ukraine / Adriana Helbig. Representing Tibet in the global cultural market : the case of Chinese-Tibetan musician Han Hong / Nimrod Baranovitch. Music and human rights : the Afroreggae cultural group and the youth from the favelas as responses to violence in Brazil / Silvia Ramos and Ana María Ochoa. In search of a cross-cultural legal framework : indigenous musics as a worldwide commodity / Felicia Sandler.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. Agency and voice: the Philippines at th 1998 smithsonian folklife festival; 2. Use and ownership: folk music in the people's republic of China; 3. Access and control: a key to reclaiming the right to construct Hawaiian history; 4. National patrimony and cultural policy: the case of the Afroperuvian Cajón; 5. Historical legacy and the contermporary world: UNESCO and China's qin music in the twenty-first century; 6. Representation and intracultural dynamics: Romani musicians and cultural rights, discourse in Ukraine; 7. Representing Tibed in the global cultural market: the case of Chinese-Tibetan musician Han Hong; 8. Music and human rights: the Afroreggae cultural group and the youth from the favelas as responses to violence in Brazil; 9. In search of a cross-cultural legal framework: indigenous musics as a worldwide commodity.
Introduction / Andrew N. Weintraub Agency and voice : the Philippines at the 1998 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Ricardo D. Trimillos Use and ownership : folk music in the People's Republic of China / Helen Rees Access and control : a key to reclaiming the right to construct Hawaiian history / Amy Ku°uleialoha Stillman National patrimony and cultural policy : the case of the Afroperuvian cajón / Javier F. León Historical legacy and the contemporary world : UNESCO and China's qin music in the twenty-first century / Bell Yung Representation and intracultural dynamics : Romani musicians and cultural rights discourse in Ukraine / Adriana Helbig Representing Tibet in the global cultural market : the case of Chinese-Tibetan musician Han Hong / Nimrod Baranovitch Music and human rights : the Afroreggae cultural group and the youth from the favelas as responses to violence in Brazil / Silvia Ramos and Ana María Ochoa In search of a cross-cultural legal framework : indigenous musics as a worldwide commodity / Felicia Sandler.