Guerrilla Music: Musicking as Resistance, Defiance, and Subversion

by Leon de Bruin (Editor), Jane Southcott (Editor), Leon de Bruin (Contribution by), Jane Southcott (Contribution by), Rusty Barrett (Contribution by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666944037
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	06/15/2024
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Leon de Bruin is senior lecturer in music at the University of Melbourne, Conservatorium of Music, coordinating the Master of Music Performance Teaching Degree (MMPT).

Jane Southcott is professor in the faculty of education at Monash University.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

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

Guerrilla Music takes a daring dive into music as a disruptive, resistant, and rebellious force. This is a relevant and challenging exploration into music as a global means to enact justice, a human initiative that can upset societal norms and help to focus attention on the universality of perpetual harm occurring in our time.

Lee Willingham