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Sonic Signatures

Music, Migration and the City at Night

Derek Pardue (Aarhus University) Ailbhe Kenny (Mary Immaculate College, Ireland) Katie Young

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Intellect Books
30 May 2023
An anthology that evokes the music, residents, and vibrant nightlife of migrants in cities around the world.

  Sonic Signatures interprets the music of contemporary migrants from Montreal to Rotterdam, Oslo to Tokyo. Drawing on research in urban musicology, international migration, and the emerging field of night studies, this edited volume illustrates that sonic signatures are fundamental to nighttime cityscapes, a way of experiencing space and belonging. Contributors to the anthology consider a wide array of genres—including EDM, batida do gueto, and iSicathamiya—to understand how migrants resist oppression, long for people and places, and shape their adopted cities through music. 
Edited by:   , , ,
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 244mm,  Width: 170mm,  Spine: 14mm
Weight:   413g
ISBN:   9781789386998
ISBN 10:   1789386993
Series:   Urban Music Studies
Pages:   254
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
List of Figures  1. Sensorial Belonging and Urban Migration: An Introduction to Sonic Signatures Derek Pardue PART 1: COLLABORATION  2. Music, Memory and Migration at Night: Relational Ways of Knowing through Arts-Based Collaborations Katie Young and Ailbhe Kenny 3. Resonating Restrictions: Dreaming with EDM ‘In-between’ Casablanca and Montreal Jillian Fulton-Melanson Interlude 1. ‘How “Free” Is the Free Africa Festival?’  Willians Santos and Derek Pardue PART 2: STREET SOUNDS 4. Nocturnal Polyphony: Mobile Music-Making as Urban Composition Nick Dunn Interlude 2. ‘Tokyo After Hours’ Nick Prior PART 3: HISTORICITY 5. Manolo D’Aro Postmortem: The Eternal and the Futurible in the Musical Landscapes of Francoist Experiential Capitalism Pol Esteve Castelló 6. Dancing Down Memory Lane: (Re)experiences of Cape Verdean Nightlife in Rotterdam Seger Kersbergen Interlude 3. Karingido: Vigilante Tricksters and Feedback-Loop Approaches to a Liberation Struggle Masimba Hwati and Austin T. Richey PART 4: BELONGING 7. Lisbon Under Construction: The Nocturnal Stylings of batida do gueto Jacqueline Georgis 8. (Be)Longing: Irish Musicking and Place-Making in Oslo, Norway Áine Mangaoang Interlude 4. ‘New York Ne Dort Pas’ Brendan Kibbee PART 5: DISCORD 9. Urban Outcasts and the Defiant iSicathamiya Music Sipho Sithole 10. Rooms for Resistance: Migration and Social Markers of Difference in Berlin Queer Underground Electronic Music Scene Gibran Teixeira Braga Interlude 5. Sounding In, Sounding Out: Remembrance and Resistance at the Border Emilie Amrein and André de Quadros Notes on Contributors Index

Derek Pardue holds a Ph.D in cultural anthropology and is an associate professor in global studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. He has conducted fieldwork and archival research in Brazil, Portugal, Denmark and Cape Verde. Ailbhe Kenny is a senior lecturer in music education at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. Her research is widely published internationally; she is the author of Communities of Musical Practice (Routledge, 2016) and co-editor of Musician-Teacher Collaborations: Altering the Chord (Routledge, 2018).  Katie Young holds a Ph.D in music and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Brock University, Canada and editorial assistant for Ethnomusicology Forum journal. Katie has conducted research in Ghana, Ireland and Canada, and has published in a range of journals and edited volumes.      

Reviews for Sonic Signatures: Music, Migration and the City at Night

'The plural histories documented in Sonic Signatures are instructive, particularly when read in relation to other theories of cultural production, the construction of difference, sociality, and auditory communities. The volume’s focus on migratory flux and cross-pollination models a scholarly approach that is both deeply historically and culturally specific, but also takes into account change and the ongoing multiple directionalities of communication and influence, particularly vis-à-vis various forms of media. Modalities of music-making, reception, and circulation are always feeding back into one another, and across social, cultural, and linguistic borders. ‘We want the aural imaginary and it wants us’, Kheshti wrote over a decade ago; the essays in Sonic Signatures testify to that desire.' -- Caitlin Woolsey, Visual Studies


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