Music Downtown Eastside

Human Rights and Capability Development through Music in Urban Poverty

Klisala Harrison (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2020
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-753507-3 (ISBN)

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Music Downtown Eastside offers an in-depth look at how music-making can promote human rights among the homeless and others living in urban neighborhoods marked by poverty. Author Klisala Harrison critically examines a wide range of local initiatives and shows how they can help vulnerable citizens develop their capabilities but also sometimes unwittingly harm them.

Music Downtown Eastside draws on two decades of research in one of North America's poorest urban areas to illustrate how human rights can be promoted through music. Harrison's examination of how gentrification, grant funding, and community organizations affect the success or failure of human rights-focused musical initiatives offers insights into the complex relationship between culture, poverty, and human rights that have global implications and applicability.

The book takes the reader into popular music jams and music therapy sessions offered to the poor in churches, community centers and health organizations. Harrison analyzes the capabilities music-making develops, and musical moments where human rights are respected, promoted, threatened, or violated. The book offers insights on the relationship between music and poverty, a social deprivation that diminishes capabilities and rights. It contributes to the human rights literature by examining critically how human rights can be strengthened in cultural practices and policy.

Klisala Harrison is Academy of Finland Research Scholar in ethnomusicology at the University of Helsinki. She has extensive research experience on music in relation to human rights, poverty and capability development; music, health and well-being; and musics of Indigenous peoples across the Arctic and of asylum seekers in Europe.

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Chapter 1: Music in Urban Poverty: Why Rights? Why Capabilities?

Part I: Popular Music for Vancouver's Poor
Chapter 2: Jams and Music Therapy Sessions
Chapter 3: Organizations Hosting Music-Making for Urban Poor

Part II: Human Rights and Capability Development in Musical Moments
Chapter 4: The Human Right to Health: Autonomy
Chapter 5: Harm Reduction
Chapter 6: Women's Rights
Chapter 7: Self-determination
Chapter 8: The Right to the City during Gentrification
Part III: Conclusions
Chapter 9: The Power to Do Something

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Erscheinungsdatum	28.10.2020
Zusatzinfo	20 photos, 13 figures
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	231 x 155 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-753507-0 / 0197535070
ISBN-13	978-0-19-753507-3 / 9780197535073
Zustand	Neuware