In some ways and to some extent, popular music can achieve genuine political change. Live aid music concert is one of the examples of music involved in an attempt to change world politics. Live 8 music concerts helped raised a substantial amount of money for third world countries where the government of developed countries have failed to eradicate developing countries debt, however this awareness reached billions of people and funds were raised world wide through the concerts and generated lots of money which means and shows that popular music helped achieved this.
Red Wedge, an independent organisation used popular music to promote the Labour party before the general election in1987. Overall popular music can achieve political change with some success, in 1984; Bob Geldof created Band Aid and used popular music to raise money and awareness for Africa where Government policies were failing.
Clearly Band Aid was more successful than Red Wedge, why do you think this was?
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