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Chorus: Sonic Politics of the Carnivalesque in Tragic Times posits the carnivalesque as a fertile laboratory to understand and go past our crisis-driven contemporaneity. The book engages with sound and noise from Cádiz, one of the capital cities of carnival in Spain, to situate carnivalesque mobilisation as a vibrant platform where our capacity to redemocratise our societies and to envisage liveable futures is revitalised. Chorus argues that the connection between freedom and carnival (carnival being a parenthesis that "liberates" individual subjectivity) has to be profoundly rethought, as freedom and spontaneity have become part of neoliberal governability.
Chorus demonstrates that carnival music is crucial to understand collective ways of being and acting in common, ways that go beyond the structured and established avenues of "formal", parliamentary politics. Carnival music is also essential to understand and move beyond a carnivalised politics (laughter being simultaneously used to open and curtail public debate; neo-conservative jester-kings that are ascending to power; and a long etcetera). More importantly, carnival sonics is a public intervention that brings its own situated, practice-based thinking. In Chorus, I argue that participating in carnival groups implies acting and being in public politically.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction. Tuning In. The Radical Sociality of Carnival Sonics
Chapter 2: Variations on Non-Compliance
Chapter 3: Precarious Subject Formation, Social Media Economies and the Un/Making of the Popular
Chapter 4: On Displaced Abjection and Feminist Carnival Insurgence
Chapter 5: Dancing Carnivalesque Sociality
Chapter 6: Animals, Drowned Sounds, and Planetary Hopes
Coda: The Laughing Chorus and the Radical Companionship of Transhistorical, Transcontinental Echoes
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