Dissonant Sounds
Diaspora, Culture and Politics
Will be published approx. on 18. February 2027
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-1-5013-9790-5 (ISBN)
Description
Dissonant Sounds is a global, interdisciplinary look at sound and conviviality in the contexts of global capitalism, nationalism, and racism.
Culturally focused but with regard to the materialities of sound, Dissonant Sounds evaluates speech, everyday life, media, computation and music. It does not simply map these phenomena but looks at them as convivial formations in the contexts of global capitalism, nationalism and racism.
With contributors based-in and discussing areas across the globe including South America, North America, the Caribbean, West Africa, Europe, South Asia, East Asia, and the Middle East and from fields including anthropology, sociology, geography, history, ethnomusicology and sound studies, the collection presents a diverse range of spaces and voices. It assesses the ways in which forms of ordinary cultural interactions convey and exceed the dominant racial politics of the moment.
Culturally focused but with regard to the materialities of sound, Dissonant Sounds evaluates speech, everyday life, media, computation and music. It does not simply map these phenomena but looks at them as convivial formations in the contexts of global capitalism, nationalism and racism.
With contributors based-in and discussing areas across the globe including South America, North America, the Caribbean, West Africa, Europe, South Asia, East Asia, and the Middle East and from fields including anthropology, sociology, geography, history, ethnomusicology and sound studies, the collection presents a diverse range of spaces and voices. It assesses the ways in which forms of ordinary cultural interactions convey and exceed the dominant racial politics of the moment.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-5013-9790-5 (9781501397905)
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Persons
Michael Bull is Professor of Sound Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is co-founder and editor of the journal Senses and Society, founding editor of Sound Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and series editor for the book series The Study of Sound (Bloomsbury). He is author of Sirens (Bloomsbury 2020) and co-editor (with Marcel Cobussen) of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies (Bloomsbury 2020). He is also co-editor of The Auditory Culture Reader (Bloomsbury 2003, 2016) and editor of The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies (2018).
Malcolm James is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is author of Sonic Intimacy (Bloomsbury 2020), Urban Multiculture: Youth, Politics and Cultural Transformation (2015), and co-editor of Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss in East London (2018).
Malcolm James is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is author of Sonic Intimacy (Bloomsbury 2020), Urban Multiculture: Youth, Politics and Cultural Transformation (2015), and co-editor of Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss in East London (2018).
Content
Introduction
Malcolm James and Michael Bull
Diaspora, Belonging and Conviviality
1. Dispersed Sounds: Carrying Words in The Body-Vessel to Plant in Other Lands
Moushumi Bhowmik and Ben Rogaly
2. Claiming the Capitalist Soundscape: Nigerian Workers' Construction of Identity in Dubai
Jaana Serres
3. Sounds of (self)care: The case of Batuku in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area
Hanna Stepanik
4. The Chilean Diaspora, September 11th and the Diasporic Sounds of Protest
Carolina Ramirez
5. Sonic belonging: South Indian music, migration and the politics of belonging
Jasmine Hornabrook
6. Sonic diaspora in a tropical metropolis: Colombian cumbia fuelling the spirit of Mexico City
John Loewenthal
7. Diasporic longing and sounds of belonging
Mini Chandran Kurian
8. Diasporic sound cultures and convivial football fandom in multicultural Britain
John Doyle and Daniel Burdsey
9. Homesick Radio and Diasporic Melancholia
Joseph Palis
Cultural Politics, Affectivity and Diaspora
10. South Asian Diasporic Classical Soundscapes
G. Ali Shair and Virinder S. Kalra
11. From sound to hypersound: the cultural politics of UK drill and hyperpop
Malcolm James
12. Dancing as one man: Tikur Sound System and asylum in southern Italy
Courtney Yusuf
13. "Ecoutez le chant gaucho-bresilien": musical translation as a politics of belonging amongst Haitian migrants in Southern Brazil
Caetano Maschio Santos
14. Drumming Belongingness in the Indian Ocean World: Marfa and the Sonic Politics Siddi-Hadrami Diaspora in Hyderabad
Khadeeja Amenda
15. South African Township Jazz in London. The Black Atlantic and the Freedom to Breathe
Michael Bull
16. 'Looks like it's a man's world': Young Women Rappers and Violence in East London
Baljit Kaur
17. Word, Sound and Power: Afro-diasporic Music(s) as Black Radical Thought in Sound
Lambros Fatsis
18. Lamenting Brexit across Berlin: reflecting on sonic ethnographic choral experiences with British migrants
Christy Kulz
19. Coke Studio Pakistan YouTube: music, political contestation and cultural citizenship
Munira Cheema
Malcolm James and Michael Bull
Diaspora, Belonging and Conviviality
1. Dispersed Sounds: Carrying Words in The Body-Vessel to Plant in Other Lands
Moushumi Bhowmik and Ben Rogaly
2. Claiming the Capitalist Soundscape: Nigerian Workers' Construction of Identity in Dubai
Jaana Serres
3. Sounds of (self)care: The case of Batuku in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area
Hanna Stepanik
4. The Chilean Diaspora, September 11th and the Diasporic Sounds of Protest
Carolina Ramirez
5. Sonic belonging: South Indian music, migration and the politics of belonging
Jasmine Hornabrook
6. Sonic diaspora in a tropical metropolis: Colombian cumbia fuelling the spirit of Mexico City
John Loewenthal
7. Diasporic longing and sounds of belonging
Mini Chandran Kurian
8. Diasporic sound cultures and convivial football fandom in multicultural Britain
John Doyle and Daniel Burdsey
9. Homesick Radio and Diasporic Melancholia
Joseph Palis
Cultural Politics, Affectivity and Diaspora
10. South Asian Diasporic Classical Soundscapes
G. Ali Shair and Virinder S. Kalra
11. From sound to hypersound: the cultural politics of UK drill and hyperpop
Malcolm James
12. Dancing as one man: Tikur Sound System and asylum in southern Italy
Courtney Yusuf
13. "Ecoutez le chant gaucho-bresilien": musical translation as a politics of belonging amongst Haitian migrants in Southern Brazil
Caetano Maschio Santos
14. Drumming Belongingness in the Indian Ocean World: Marfa and the Sonic Politics Siddi-Hadrami Diaspora in Hyderabad
Khadeeja Amenda
15. South African Township Jazz in London. The Black Atlantic and the Freedom to Breathe
Michael Bull
16. 'Looks like it's a man's world': Young Women Rappers and Violence in East London
Baljit Kaur
17. Word, Sound and Power: Afro-diasporic Music(s) as Black Radical Thought in Sound
Lambros Fatsis
18. Lamenting Brexit across Berlin: reflecting on sonic ethnographic choral experiences with British migrants
Christy Kulz
19. Coke Studio Pakistan YouTube: music, political contestation and cultural citizenship
Munira Cheema