The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights (Hardcover)

1) For academic researchers, human rights practitioners, musicians and all artists 2) Addresses a valiant and highly relevant and timely need: to fostering a culture of humanism in support of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and related goals set forth by the UN 3) Promotes global conversations about the role of the arts to empower citizenry and enhance human rights awareness. 4) Inspires new trajectories in interdisciplinary research, most notably linking music with studies in health, environment, gender and forced displacement. 5) Facilitated by a wide range of experts from the human rights sector-academics, human rights defenders, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, and individual practitioners-and from a variety of musical fields, both academic and performing