1st Edition

Sonic Rebellions Volume II War, Conflict and Remembering

Edited By Wanda Canton Copyright 2027
294 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press

294 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press

This second volume of the  Sonic Rebellions  series explores how sound responds to war and conflict, serving as a mode of commemoration and storytelling, with contributions from artists, practitioners, and scholars focused on sound and social justice. Readers will gain unique insights into the intersection of sound and social justice, with chapters offering ethnographic methodologies,... Read more

Introduction: Editor’s Reflections 

1. Community Radio (alHara) in Palestine
Minka de Regt and Wanda Canton 

2. Torture Music in Contemporary Art
G Douglas Barrett 

3. Violins as Historical Witnesses: The ‘Violins of Hope’ Collection at the Chimei Museum in Taiwan
Li-Ming Pan 

4. Dubbing the Archive: Poetics in Diasporic British Memory
Am Ubhi 

5. Essential Tremors: A Sonic Epistemology of the Chilean Coup
Jake Sokolov-Gonzalez 

6. Sounds of memories and nostalgia: Listening to y/our mothers and grandmothers
Sumedha Bhattacharyya 

7. Sounding Madness: An Autoethnographic Study of Psychosis
Wiliam Renel 

8. Chants from the 2023 Paris Pension demonstrations: Collective identities, togetherness and empowerment.
Maël Hamey Jakubowicz

9. ‘Are you up for progress?’: Sunny Hill Festival in post-independence Kosovo
Marilena Gatsiou 

10. Rap made in Greece: Mapping the landscapes of drill and trap
Natalia Aikaterini Koutsougera and Emmanouil Paraoulakis 

11. Rage Has No Limits! Characteristics of Resistance in Turkish Rap Music
Irem Elbir 

12. Batuko as a diasporic expressive practice. Music, gender and migration in the Cabo Verdean community
Mulleres á Fronte

Biography

Wanda Canton, Ph.D., is a lecturer at Newcastle University and founder of Sonic Rebellions. Her research centres on abolitionist politics with an interest in how sound/music is policed. She has written on the criminalisation of UK Drill, rap and decoloniality, and rap as therapeutic practice.