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Guerrilla Music: Musicking as Resistance, Defiance, and Subversion explores human initiations and responses to music as a process and product intrinsically part of our culture, history, place, time and ecological musical worlds. The contributors challenge scholarly approaches wherein music is detached from the social relationships in which it is produced, transmitted, used and judged. 'Guerrilla' is a trope long applied to socio-political machinations, human conflict and confrontation. Guerrilla Music provocatively explores research involving music practices, stories, communities and musickers worldwide that resist, defy and subvert by silence and non-compliance, reluctant subordination, subversive depowering, resistive counterpoint, or destructive, violent dismantling. Contexts spanning the subcultural local, glocal and universal highlight the potency, passions, actions and life worlds of music, musicians and those that become engulfed in musical maelstroms that incite change. Guerrilla Music both invigorates and advances scholarly debates about social power, colonisation and difference by exploring the social semiotics of music making and communities, identifying powerful new ways of understanding human communication, and what musicking means in the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

1. Surveying the Terrain (Leon de Bruin and Jane Southcott)

Part I: Expeditiousness and Immediacy
2. Music as Provocation, Resistance, Sedition and Rebellion (Jane Southcott)
3. Resistance between Local and Global: Resisting through Arabesk Rap and Its Limits (Umut Mise)
4. Resisting State Crimes through Music: Punk Rock, Praxis, and Musicking Resistance (David Kauzlarich)
5. 'The Battlefield': Universal Struggle through Guerrilla-Style Tactics of Music Education (Nasim Niknafs)

Part II: Recurrence and Intermittence
6. That Drum Won't Beat: Music in the Quest for Social Justice (Emily Akuno)
7. Sociomusical Identities through Composition and Staging: Co-constructed Narratives Centered on Resistance (Rolando Angel-Alvarado and René Silva-Ponce)
8. Politics, Protest and Posturing: The Eurovision Song Contest (Leon de Bruin)
9. Disrupting Patriotic Discourse: Music as a Counter Public and Dissident Archetype in Zimbabwe Post-2000 (Blessing Makwambeni and Trust Matsilele)

Part III: Perseverance and Perpetuity
10. Musicking Traditions: Resistance, Rebellion and Conformity in India's Music Education (Natalie Sarrazin)
11. Listening to a Uyghur Love Song in the Time of Mass Incarceration (Chuen-Fung Wong)
12. Encountering Enduring Voices, Spirits and Resistances: Indigenous Contemporary Music in Australia (Leon de Bruin)
13. Indigenous with Attitude: Hip-Hop and Pan-Indigenous Politics in Latin America (Rusty Barrett)
14. The Subtle Art of Resistance: Rehearing the Music of Na Yoon-sun ??? (Youn Sun Nah)(Leigh Carriage)
15. Reviewing the Terrain, and Further Explorations (Leon de Bruin and Jane Southcott)

Index
About the Editors and Contributors

Product details

Published 13 May 2024
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 256
ISBN 9781666944044
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 2 BW Illustrations
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Leon de Bruin

Leon de Bruin is Senior Lecturer in Music at the U…

Anthology Editor

Jane Southcott

Jane Southcott is Professor in the faculty of Educ…

Contributor

Leon de Bruin

Leon de Bruin is Senior Lecturer in Music at the U…

Contributor

Jane Southcott

Jane Southcott is Professor in the faculty of Educ…

Contributor

Rusty Barrett

Contributor

Leigh Carriage

Contributor

David Kauzlarich

David Kauzlarich is associate professor and chair…

Contributor

Umut Mise

Contributor

Nasim Niknafs

Contributor

Emily Akuno

Contributor

Trust Matsilele

Trust Matsilele is senior lecturer at Birmingham C…

Contributor

Chuen-Fung Wong

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