Sonic Politics

This volume analyses the narration of the social through music and the seismographic function of music to detect social problems and envision alternatives.

Introduction: Sonic politics: music and the narration of the social in the Americas from the 1960s to the present, Olaf Kaltmeier and Wilfried Raussert; Chapter 1: Singing resistance, rebellion, and revolution into being: collective political action and song, Helen Cordes and Eric Selbin; Chapter 2: African American music in the Americas: slavery, sounds, and forms of "knowledge", Ulfried Reichardt; Chapter 3: "Only a Pawn in their game?" Civil rights sounding signatures in the summer of 1963, Frank Mehring; Chapter 4: Inter-public-agenda-setting effect through political activism: the role of hip-hop music in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election, Maria de los Angeles Flores, Carol L. Adams-Means, and Maxwell E. McCombs; Chapter 5: "Calling out around the world": how soul music transnationalized the African American freedom struggle in the black power era (1965-1975), Matti Steinitz; Chapter 6: "Si Una Vez": chicana sensibilities and Xicanista soundscapes, Miriam Strube; Chapter 7: Hip-hop in Ciudad Juarez: a form of political participation, Maria del Carmen de la Peza C.; Chapter 8: The Fandango Sin Fronteras movement and sonic migrations: performing community across borders, Wilfried Raussert; Chapter 9: The search for a new collective epic in Nicaraguan post-revolutionary music, Luis E. Duarte; Chapter 10: Rockin' for Pachamama: political struggle and the narration of history in Ecuadorian rock music, Olaf Kaltmeier; Chapter 11: Punk is dead. Or is it? Strategies of subcultural positioning in the (re-)making of the punk movement, Martin Butler; Chapter 12: Political pie-throwing: Dead Kennedys and the Yippie-Punk continuum, Michael Stewart Foley