Full Description
Music and Antifascism brings together nineteen international scholars to critically assess the role of music in antifascist struggles in Europe and North America, from the establishment of historical antifascist collectives in the early twentieth century to contemporary antifascist movements today.
From antifascist labor choirs in interwar England, to punk subcultures of the 1970s, resistance to fascism in contemporary Ukraine, and antifascist politics in contemporary music festivals, these chapters explore the various ways in which music is used to create antifascist spaces, foster antifascist education and political consciousness, build capacity, and directly confront fascist threats. The current crisis of the capitalist project, the increasing concentration of wealth, and the concomitant climate emergency have ushered in a surge in ultranationalist, xenophobic, and authoritarian regimes throughout the world.
The gravity of the issues at stake, and the current momentum of social movements worldwide opposing this resurgence of fascism, make this topic a timely one. Music and Antifascism will be valuable reading for students engaged with music and politics, music and social justice, music and culture, historical musicology, popular music studies, music and media, and politics and the arts.
Contents
PART I: Confronting the Far-Right 1. Fascism, Antifascism, and Contested Ambiguities in Extreme Metal: The Steelfest 2022 Controversy 2. "I Really Really Wannabe a Dictator": A Music Mash-up's Opposition to Trump's Second Term 3. Czech Postsocialist Antifascism: A Battle for the Soul of Music Subcultures PART II: Collective Organization and Resistance 4. Antifascist Singing in Interwar England: Alan Bush, the Workers' Music Association, and Handel's Belshazzar 5. Punk Rock, Political Education, and Antifascism 6. Bicommunal Struggle in Europe's Last Divided Capital: Antifascist Festivals as Models of Autonomous Self-Organization and Resistance PART III: Songs of Resistance 7. Echoes of Partisan Music in Contemporary European Youth Cultures: The Persistence, Popularization, and Contestation of the Resistance Song "Bella Ciao" 8. "Our Father Is Bandera": Fascism, Antifascism, and Memorialization in Ukrainian Resistance Songs 9. Antifascism, Rhetorical Framing, and Public Pedagogy in the Mid-Century American Folk Music of Woody Guthrie 10. "Quake, Fascists! The Pir Sultans Are Coming": Early Modern Alevi Song as Antifascist Poetics 11. Antifascist Music in Detention: Songs of the French Resistance in Nazi Camps and Prisons PART IV: Aesthetics and Antifascism 12. Third Reich 'n Roll: Popular Music and the Performative
Antifascism of the Residents 13. A Sound Cartography of Antifascist Resistance in the Twentieth Century: Exploring Luigi Nono's Für Paul Dessau 14. The Songs of Accidente: Navigating the Multiple Meanings of Antifascist Punk in Spain After the 2010s PART V: The Politics of Performance 15. Opera as Antifascism in Socialist Hungary 16. (Not) the Enemy's Music: Politics, Media and the Reception of German Orchestral Music in the US, 1917-1945 17. Austrian Musical Antifascism in Exile, or Vienna on the Thames 18. "Two Hours Alive on a Dead TV": Protest Songs and the Public Broadcaster During the Last Years of the Portuguese Estado Novo Dictatorship
