Music and Social Justice (Series)

Music and Social Justice seeks projects that engage with the dynamic roles of music, sound, artists, and activists within and across agendas of social justice, past and present. We are interested in how music and musicians make and unmake worlds, nations, communities, and bodies. We welcome monographs, edited volumes, graphic novels, multimedia projects, and alternative modes of scholarly-creative endeavors. And we are open to prospective authors who wish to challenge the rhetorical, discursive, and presentational norms of academic prose in the name of experimentalism, outreach, anti-capitalism, anti-colonialism, and neurodiversity.

Series Editors
William Cheng (@willxcheng), Dartmouth College
Andrew Dell’Antonio (@dellantonio), University of Texas at Austin

Series Editorial Board
Naomi André
Suzanne G. Cusick
Ellie M. Hisama
Mark Katz
Alejandro L. Madrid
Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels
Carol J. Oja
Shana L. Redmond

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Sensing Precarity

Viral Listening in Medicalized Worlds

By Ailsa Lipscombe
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Disability Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Understanding and challenging our relationships to medicalized sound during the COVID-19 pandemic

Theorizing Music for Antiracist Futures

Key Terms and Critical Methods

Edited by Jade Adele Conlee & Tatiana Rose Daub Koike
Subjects: Music, Music Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Critical Ethnic Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Explores complex histories and assumptions behind musical terms

Music at the Margins of Sense

By Jessica A. Holmes
Subjects: Music, Disability Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Challenging misconceptions of musical experience in deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing disabled musicians and listeners

Black Song

A Manifesto for Music and Justice

By Singing Justice Collective, Louise Toppin, Naomi Andre, Stephen A. Berrey, Tyrese Byrd, Mark Allan Clague, Caroline Helton, Traci L. Lombré, Samantha Williams, Cody Jones, Christie Finn, and Thomas Hampson
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Connecting music and history to engage more deeply and respectfully with Black musical traditions

Prison Song

Music and Incarceration in the United States

By David Metzer
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

How musicians across genres have confronted the prison system over the last hundred years

A Beautiful Fight

The Racial Politics of Capoeira in Backland Bahia

By Esther Viola Kurtz
Subjects: Dance, Music, Ethnomusicology, Latin American Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Music and Social Justice

A critical ethnography of Black and white participation in Afro-Brazilian music and dance

Hip-Hop Civics

Connected Learning in the Rap Classroom

By Jabari M. Evans
Subjects: Music, Music Composition, Education, Higher Education, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Music and Social Justice

How Hip-Hop-based education can engage Black and Brown students in civic education

Hold Me Down

By Ben Lauren
Subjects: Writing, Music, Music Composition
Series: Music and Social Justice

How the concept of feel is used to write songs

Teaching Difficult Topics

Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom

Edited by Olivia R. Lucas & Laura Moore Pruett
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Reflections from college music instructors offering various approaches to inclusive, supportive pedagogy in the classroom

Improvising Across Abilities

Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument

Edited by Thomas Ciufo, Abbey L. Dvorak, Kip Haaheim, Jennifer Hurst, IONE, Grace Shih-en Leu, Leaf Miller, Ray Mizumura-Pence, Nicola Oddy, Jesse Stewart, John Sullivan, Sherrie Tucker, Ellen Waterman, and Ranita Wilks
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Disability Studies, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Music and Social Justice

An exploration of the instrument that allows everyone to access artistic practice

Rape at the Opera

Staging Sexual Violence

By Margaret Cormier
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Theater and Performance
Series: Music and Social Justice

How opera practitioners represent sexual violence on today’s opera stages

Jamming the Classroom

Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice

By Ajay Heble & Jesse Stewart
Subjects: Music, Musicology
Series: Music and Social Justice

Musical improvisation as a vehicle for teaching, learning, and enacting social justice

On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone

By Philip Ewell
Subjects: Music, Music Theory, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Exposing the racial injustices of music theory

For the Culture

Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice

By Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey & Adolphus Belk
Subjects: Music, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Examines the relationship between social justice, Hip-Hop culture, and resistance

Sonorous Worlds

Musical Enchantment in Venezuela

By Yana Stainova
Subjects: Music, Anthropology
Series: Music and Social Justice

In Venezuela’s El Sistema, music is both a means of government control and a form of emancipation for youth musicians

Singing Out

GALA Choruses and Social Change

By Heather MacLachlan
Subjects: Music, Theater and Performance, American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Examines whether LGBT choruses can change the hearts and minds of their audiences

Performing Commemoration

Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma

By Annegret Fauser & Michael A. Figueroa
Subjects: Music, Musicology
Series: Music and Social Justice

An edited collection about the roles music plays in public commemoration of traumatic events

Sounding Dissent

Rebel Songs, Resistance, and Irish Republicanism

By Stephen Millar
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

In Belfast’s rebel music scene, Irish republican musicians and audiences engage in ritualized resistance against the British state

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