Week 7 -Can popular music be a genuine force for political change?

It is fairly clear that music has brought light upon many aspects of life that many people around the world were not aware of. The obvious methods that have been very successful are the likes of Band Aid and live Live 8, which both raise huge awareness for the third world. Although these worldwide events make a huge sum of money for starving Africans, the fact remains that the politics remain the same and the only outcome of the popular music is the money produced and the awareness raised. Another example of music helping out the needy is when U2 and Greenday released the Saints are Coming in a bid to raise money for the victims of the Hurricane Katrina incident. The fact of the matter is, music is a force in raising awareness of certain aspects of the modern day world but it will never affect politics in a major way. It will only change the opinions of the public!