Full Description
This second volume of the Sonic Rebellions series explores how sound responds to war and conflict, serving as a mode of commemoration and storytelling, with contributions from artists, practitioners, and scholars focused on sound and social justice.
Readers will gain unique insights into the intersection of sound and social justice, with chapters offering ethnographic methodologies, interdisciplinary approaches, and geopolitical perspectives primarily from the Global South. Featuring never-before-published research and interviews, this accessible yet rigorous collection combines academic quality with engaging narratives, making it a valuable resource for understanding sound's role in cultural and social politics.
This book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students, scholars of ethnography, sound studies, and social research, as well as community organizers, activists, and practitioners interested in the application of sound and music for positive social impact. It is particularly suited for those studying or working in contemporary cultural and social politics.
Contents
1. Community Radio (alHara) in Palestine 2. Torture Music in Contemporary Art 3, Violins as Historical Witnesses: The 'Violins of Hope' Collection at the Chimei Museum in Taiwan 4. Dubbing the Archive: Poetics in Diasporic British Memory 5. Essential Tremors: A Sonic Epistemology of the Chilean Coup 6. Sounds of memories and nostalgia: Listening to y/our mothers and grandmothers 7. Sounding Madness: An Autoethnographic Study of Psychosis 8. Chants from the 2023 Paris Pension demonstrations: Collective identities, togetherness and empowerment. 9. 'Are you up for progress?': Sunny Hill Festival in post-independence Kosovo 10. Rap made in Greece: Mapping the landscapes of drill and trap 11. Rage Has No Limits! Characteristics of Resistance in Turkish Rap Music 12. Batuko as a diasporic expressive practice. Music, gender and migration in the Cabo Verdean community
