Description
Book SynopsisSonic Signatures is an interdisciplinary collaboration of scholars and music-makers who come together to explore how music makes cities. More specifically, they argue that the musical encounter, composed of an array of production and consumption practices, takes on particular and essential meaning at night. Thinking about music as an encounter allows one to appreciate the value and power of migration within the act of music-making.
The majority of voices amplified in the book come from so-called “migrants,” understood as someone who was born in one country and currently lives and works in another. Yet, these words, migration, migrant and migrancy, are more expansive than that as they indicate a range of movement, politics and place-making.
Contributions from Emilie Amrein, André de Quadros, Nick Dunn, Pol Esteve, Jillian Fulton-Melanson, Jacqueline Georgis, Masimba Hwati, Ailbhe Kenny, Seger Kersbergen, Brendan Kibbee, Áine Mangaoang, Derek Pardue, Nick Prior, Austin T. Richie, Willians Santos, Sipho Sithole, Gibran Teixeira Braga, Katie Young.
A great, engaging transdisciplinary contribution to nightlife studies, music and the city.
Table of ContentsList 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
