CONTENTS -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- General Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 More Relevance than Spotlight and Applause: Billy Bragg in the British Folk Tradition -- 2 Know Your Rights": Punk Rock, Globalization, and Human Rights -- 3 Unlocking the Silence: Tori Amos, Sexual Violence, and Affect -- 4 Pantomime Paranoia in London, or, "Lookout, He's behind you!" -- 5 The Blues, Trauma, and Public Memory: Willie King and the Liberators -- 6 The Aesthetic Dimension: Cultural Politics, Human Rights, and Hedwig -- 7 The Evolution of the Political Benefit Rock Album -- 8 Which Music for Which Catastrophe? The Functions of Popular Music Twenty-first Century Benefit Concerts -- 9 From Midnight Music to Civil Rights, from Bluesology to Human Rights: Gil Scott-Heron, American Griot -- 10 Plight of the Redman: XIT, Red Power, and the Refashioning of American Indian Ethnicity -- 11 "The Country We Carry in Our Hearts is Waiting": Bruce Springsteen, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the Search for Human Rights in America -- 12 The Vision of Possibility: Popular Music, Women, and Human Rights -- Bibliography -- Discography -- Index.