Music and Resistance
Edición a cargo de: Igor Contreras Zubillaga y Helena Martín-Nieva
Editorial: Brepols
Ciudad: Turnhout
ISBN: 978-2-503-60291-2
Año de publicación: 2022
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Resistance is a relevant topic today, driven by recent global social
movements such as Black Lives Matter, fourth-wave feminism and the fight
for recognition of LGBTIQ+ rights. In the academic arena, resistance
has been the subject of increasing attention in disciplines such as
sociology, anthropology, geography, political sciences and cultural and
literary studies. In music, the notion of resistance has frequently been
mobilised by popular music genres (hip-hop is a notable example) and,
in general, in situations of political opposition. The relationship
between music and resistance is, however, much richer and more complex.
Through the study of specific cases from a variety of genres covering a
broad period of time from 1900 to today, this volume analyses many types
of resistance in which music has been involved, including various
geographic and historical contexts, and also twentieth-century
dictatorships and contemporary social movements. It asks how the
relationship between music and resistance is established, and how music
can be understood as an act of resistance. It also examines the meaning
of resistance in musical terms and how we can determine if a piece of
music in a certain time and space functioned as resistance to a power
system.