Guerrilla Music

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, coordinating the Master of Music Performance Teaching Degree (MMPT).
Jane Southcott is professor in the faculty of education at Monash University.

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 ??? (Youn Sun Nah)
Leigh Carriage
Chapter15 Reviewing the Terrain, and Further Explorations
Leon de Bruin and Jane Southcott