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. Contributors are Nimrod Baranovitch, Adriana Helbig, Javier F. Leon, Ana Marķa Ochoa, Silvia Ramos, Helen Rees, Felicia Sandler, Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman, Ricardo D. Trimillos, Andrew N. Weintraub, and Bell Yung.
Preface: Bell Yung; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Andrew N. Weintraub; 1. Agency and Voice, The Philippines at the 1998 Smithsonian Folklife Festival: Ricardo D. Trimillos; 2. Use and Ownership, Folk Music in the People's Republic of China: Helen Rees; 3. Access and Control, A Key to Reclaiming the Right to Construct Hawaiian History: Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman; 4. National Patrimony and Cultural Policy, The Case of the Afroperuvian Cajon: Javier Leon; 5. Historical Legacy and the Contemporary World, UNESCO and China's Qin Music in the 21st Century: Bell Yung; 6. Representation and Intracultural Dynamics, Romani Musicians and Cultural Rights Discourse in Ukraine: Adriana Helbig; 7. Representing Tibet in the Global Cultural Market, The Case of the Chinese-Tibetan Musician Han Hong: Nimrod Baranovitch; 8. Music and Human Rights, AfroReggae and the Youth from the Favelas as Responses to Violence in Brazil: Silvia Ramos/Ana Maria Ochoa; 9. In Search of a Cross-Cultural Legal Framework, Indigenous Musics as Worldwide Commodity: Felicia Sandler; Bibliography; Glossary of Chinese Characters for Chapters By Baranovitch, Rees, and Yung; Notes on Contributors; Index Preface: Bell Yung; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Andrew N. Weintraub; 1. Agency and Voice, The Philippines at the 1998 Smithsonian Folklife Festival: Ricardo D. Trimillos; 2. Use and Ownership, Folk Music in the People's Republic of China: Helen Rees; 3. Access and Control, A Key to Reclaiming the Right to Construct Hawaiian History: Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman; 4. National Patrimony and Cultural Policy, The Case of the Afroperuvian Cajon: Javier Leon; 5. Historical Legacy and the Contemporary World, UNESCO and China's Qin Music in the 21st Century: Bell Yung; 6. Representation and Intracultural Dynamics, Romani Musicians and Cultural Rights Discourse in Ukraine: Adriana Helbig; 7. Representing Tibet in the Global Cultural Market, The Case of the Chinese-Tibetan Musician Han Hong: Nimrod Baranovitch; 8. Music and Human Rights, AfroReggae and the Youth from the Favelas as Responses to Violence in Brazil: Silvia Ramos/Ana Maria Ochoa; 9. In Search of a Cross-Cultural Legal Framework, Indigenous Musics as Worldwide Commodity: Felicia Sandler; Bibliography; Glossary of Chinese Characters for Chapters By Baranovitch, Rees, and Yung; Notes on Contributors; Index
