Guerrilla Music Musicking as Resistance, Defiance, and Subversion

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Guerrilla Music

Musicking as Resistance, Defiance, and Subversion

Leon de Bruin | Jane Southcott | Rusty Barrett | Blessing Makwambeni | Leigh Carriage | David Kauzlarich | Umut Mise | Nasim Niknafs | Rolando Angel-Alvarado | Natalie Sarrazin | Emily Akuno | Trust Matsilele | René Silva-Ponce | Chuen-Fung Wong | Leon de Bruin | Jane Southcott

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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.

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.

Jane Southcott is Professor in the faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. She is an internationally recognised historian and qualitative researcher. Jane is a music and arts educator with experience in primary, secondary, tertiary and informal educational settings. She has published and performed poetry, researched poetry and poets, and embedded poetry in her teaching and writing.


Publication Date: 07 January 2027
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Imprint: Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 9781666944051
Format: Paperback softback
Page Count: 256
Weight (oz): 16.0

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