Really entralling topic, your posts are excellent.
It's hard for Music to effect change, I think it's down to the individual and their free will.
But I do think that we can be reminded of things we comfortably forget. I guess we have to stay sane and functioning.
Once reminded, by a song, it can be impossible to ever be 'comfortable' again, sometimes there is just no going back
when you get your eyes opened. Many famous musicians get to go and see things we could never hope to experience and some
take it on themselves to say that things are just plain wrong and we should go another way... Music can be very powerful.
I love Killing Joke and their song 'Tiahuanaco' from 'Outside The Gate' haunts me to this day.
There's the First World then there's the rest of the World.
I have never looked at Tourism in the same way since. It took me a long time to admit that what I have is often down to someone else,
somewhere else, going without. My technology and entertainment often being their bloody hard work. So much inequality in the World.
The piano piece at the songs end is often too painful to listen to, have to turn it off.