{"id":6163,"date":"2014-11-20T08:10:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T08:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6163"},"modified":"2014-11-20T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T08:11:07","slug":"dont-they-know-its-time-to-revive-the-media-profile-of-ageing-rockers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/11\/20\/dont-they-know-its-time-to-revive-the-media-profile-of-ageing-rockers\/","title":{"rendered":"Don't they know it's time to revive the media profile of ageing rockers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I'm not going to buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metrolyrics.com\/news-story-watch-band-aid-30-do-they-know-its-christmas-video.html\">Band Aid 30<\/a>. \u00a0Neither, it seems, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/nov\/19\/turn-down-band-aid-bob-geldof-africa-fuse-odg\">Fuse ODG<\/a>\u00a0who has been put off by the patronising view of Africa that the whole idea represents. \u00a0Indeed! \u00a0Not that this is new. \u00a0The original Band Aid had that problem from the outset, as has much of the media representation of both the continent and individual countries. \u00a0What was the last 'good news' story you saw on TV news about things African? \u00a0Aspects of development education has suffered from this problem for a while, and I vividly recall, not so long ago, sitting through a teacher INSET session on Ghana which consisted of making beads.<\/p>\n<p>Given that African music can be\u00a0so wonderful, and that there is so much of it available, I found myself wondering why this wasn't being used to promote charitable giving in relation to Ebola. \u00a0Silly me! \u00a0No where near enough scope for the bulging\u00a0egos of ageing\u00a0rockers who could give millions on their own if they cared to. \u00a0Happily, there are plenty of UK charity options for all good Bono-refusniks. \u00a0Go on ...<\/p>\n<p>And for a witty comment on the whole sad business \u2013 Band Aid, that is \u2013 you could do worse than look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africafornorway.no\">RADI-AID<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I'm not going to buy Band Aid 30. \u00a0Neither, it seems, is Fuse ODG\u00a0who has been put off by the patronising view of Africa that the whole idea represents. \u00a0Indeed! \u00a0Not that this is new. \u00a0The original Band Aid had...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}