Guerrilla Music: Musicking as Resistance, Defiance, and Subversion provides a timely exploration of 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. The notion of ‘guerrilla’ is a trope long applied to socio-political machinations, human conflict, and confrontation. Providing a provocative lens through which to view musicking, Guerrilla Music explores research involving human practices of music, stories, communities, and musickers worldwide that employ music to resist, defy, and subvert, whether by silence and non-compliance, reluctant subordination, subversive depowering, resistive counterpoint, or destructive, violent dismantling. The ambition of such musicking experiences resides in the richness of specific contexts spanning the subcultural local, glocal, and the universal. What better way to understand the potency of these passionate human traits than through interrogation and celebration of the 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 simultaneously exploring the social semiotics of music making and music communities, identifying powerful new ways of understanding human communication, the power of music, and what musicking means to people in the twenty-first century.
Contributions by:
Leon de Bruin,
Jane Southcott,
Rusty Barrett
Edited by:
Leon de Bruin,
Jane Southcott
Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781666944037
ISBN 10: 1666944033
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 15 June 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Table of Contents Chapter 1 Surveying the Terrain Leon de Bruin and Jane Southcott Expeditious and Immediacy Chapter 2 Music as Provocation, Resistance, Sedition, and Rebellion. Jane Southcott Chapter 3 Resistance between Local and Global: Resisting through Arabesk Rap and its Limits Umut Mise Chapter 4 Resisting State Crimes through Music: Punk Rock songwriting David Kauzlarich Chapter 5 “This is the Battlefield:” Universal Struggle through Guerrilla-Style Tactics of Music Education Nasim Niknafs Recurrence and Intermittence Chapter 6 That Drum Won’t Beat: Music in the Quest for Social Justice. Emily Achieng’ Akuno Chapter 7 Sociomusical Identities through Composition and Staging: Co-constructed Narratives Centred on Resistance Rolando Angel-Alvarado and René Silva-Ponce Chapter 8 Politics, Protest, and Posturing: The Eurovision Song Contest Leon de Bruin Chapter 9 Disrupting Patriotic Discourse’: Music as a Counter Public and Dissident Archetype in Zimbabwe Post-2000 Blessing Makwambeni and Trust Matsilele Perseverance and Perpetuity Chapter 10. Musicking Traditions: Resistance, Rebellion, and Conformity in India’s Music Education Natalie Sarrazin Chapter 11 Listening to a Uyghur Love Song in the Time of Mass Incarceration Chuen-Fung Wong Chapter 12 Encountering Enduring Voices, Spirits, and Resistances: Indigenous Contemporary Music in Australia Leon de Bruin Chapter 13 Indigenous with Attitude: Hip Hop and pan-Indigenous politics in Latin America Rusty Barrett Chapter 14 The Subtle Art of Resistance: Re-hearing the Music of Na Yoon-sun 나윤선 (Youn Sun Nah) Leigh Carriage Chapter15 Reviewing the Terrain, and Further Explorations Leon de Bruin and Jane Southcott
Leon de Bruin is senior lecturer in music at the University of Melbourne, Conservatorium of Music and coordinator of the Master of Music Performance Teaching Degree Program (MMPT). Jane Southcott is professor in the faculty of education at Monash University.
Reviews for Guerrilla Music: Musicking as Resistance, Defiance, and Subversion
Guerrilla Music is an inspirational collection of thoroughly grounded discussions and illustrations of how music and musicking can be sites of political protest and expression. The chapters cover an exceptionally diverse range of socio-musical contexts, styles and genres from around the world. I learned a lot of really interesting stuff from this exceptional book, which is sure to make a mark on the sociology of music, ethnomusicology, critical musicology, music education and many more areas. --Lucy Green, UCL Institute of Education, London
