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Description
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 considers the benefit concert over thirteen wide-ranging chapters. It includes major events including the Concert for Bangladesh, Live Aid, and the Concert for New York. National examples such as Scottish concerts for overseas aid, Neil and Pegi Young's Bridge School benefits in California, mining disasters in Canada, and political causes include Rock Against Racism and Red Wedge in the UK and punk events in Washington DC.
Table of Contents
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 McIntosh (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
Product details
| Published | 23 Jul 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 296 |
| ISBN | 9781793629739 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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