This book explores the role that benefit concerts, tours, and recordings have and have had in mobilizing popular music and musicians to raise money or awareness to combat social problems, both human and natural. Fund raising rock concerts have been a major feature of the music scene since the first recognized event, the Concert for Bangladesh, was organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar in 1971. Since then, they have come in many guises, from small-scale local affairs to mega international extravaganzas with the causes they support including national and international disaster relief as well as more political objectives. Rock for Change: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Benefit Concert looks at all these over thirteen wide-ranging chapters. Major events including the Concert for Bangladesh, Live Aid and the Concert for New York are covered. National examples include Scottish concerts for overseas aid, Neil and Pegi Young''s Bridge School benefits in California, mining disasters in Canada and three New Zealand concerts each portraying a different aspect of the meaning of nationality in that country. Political causes include Rock Against Racism and Red Wedge in the UK and punk events in Washington DC. Finally, there are chapters on the film of the Wattstax Festival and a newer form of event solely for young volunteers, RockCorps.

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Nick Baxter-Moore is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film, Brock University, Canada. He was co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor (2019) Peter Grant is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Charity Effectiveness at Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London, UK. He is a former trustee of the Amy Winehouse Foundation and is now a director of the Foundation's trading company. His previous books include Philanthropy and Voluntary Action in the First World War (2014) and National Myth and the First World War in Modern Popular Music (2016).

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List of Contributors
Introduction
Nick Baxter-Moore (Brock University, Canada) and Peter Grant (University of London, UK)

Part I: Mega-events

1. "Now won't you lend your hand?": Organization and Legacy of the Concert for Bangladesh
   David Wright (Misericordia University, USA)
2. The White Band's Burden: Live Aid, Popular Culture, and Humanitarian Philanthropy in the 1980s
   Andrew Jones (The Conference Board, USA)

3. "Get Back to Where You Once Belonged": Nostalgia, 9/11, and The Concert for New York City
   Kip Pegley (Queen's University, Canada)

   Part II: Major Events

4. Performance and Meaning in Benefit Concerts: Genre, Authenticity, and Place (two charity fund-raising live concert performances in Glasgow)
   Mark Percival (Queen Margaret University, UK)
5. You are Us: Micro Nationalities and Narratives of Belonging in Three New Zealand Fundraising Concerts
   Kirsten Zemke (Waipapa Taumata Rau, Aotearoa) & Jared Mackley-Crump (Independent Scholar, New Zealand)

6. The Bridge School Benefit Concert: A Song for the Kids on the Side of the Stage
   George Plasketes (Auburn University, USA)

   Part III: Campaigns

7. "Black and white unite and fight": Rock Against Racism Concerts in the Late 1970s
   Jeremy Tranmer (University of Lorraine, France)
8. "It's Sheep We're Up Against": The Shambolic Indie Rock Politics of Red Wedge
   Scott Henderson (Trent University, Canada)

9. The Punk Not-For-Profit Pipeline: The Ethos of Punk Benefit Concerts
   David Ensminger (Lee College, USA)

   Part IV: Variations on a Theme

10. Music and Disasters: Concerts as Commemorative Events
    Heather Sparling (Cape Breton University, Canada) & Chris McDonald (Cape Breton University, Canada)
11. Wattstax: Celebrity, Promotion, Mediation, and the Benefit Concert Film
    Heather Mackintosh (Minnesota State University, USA)

12. Making Volunteering Fashionable? RockCorps, Volunteering, and the Dilemma of Incentivization
    Justin Davis Smith (Bayes Business School, UK)

    Postscript
    Nick Baxter-Moore (Brock University, Canada) and Peter Grant (University of London, UK)

    Index