Music and Resistance: From 1900 to the Present

Igor Contreras Zubillaga, Helena Martín Nieva (eds). Pages: xxi + 407 p. Illustrations:30 b/w, 16 musical examples. Language(s):English. Hardback. Brepols, Publication Year:2023 . SUMMARY Resistance is a relevant topic today, driven by recent global social movements such as Black Lives Matter, fourth-wave feminism and the fight for recognition of LGBTIQ+ rights. In the academic arena, resistance has been the subject of increasing attention in disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, geography, political sciences and cultural and literary studies. In music, the notion of resistance has frequently been mobilised by popular music genres (hip-hop is a notable example) and, in general, in situations of political opposition. The relationship between music and resistance is, however, much richer and more complex. Through the study of specific cases from a variety of genres covering a broad period of time from 1900 to today, this volume analyses many types of resistance in which music has been involved, including various geographic and historical contexts, and also twentieth-century dictatorships and contemporary social movements. It asks how the relationship between music and resistance is established, and how music can be understood as an act of resistance. It also examines the meaning of resistance in musical terms and how we can determine if a piece of music in a certain time and space functioned as resistance to a power system. TABLE OF CONTENTS Germán Gan Quesada & Gemma Pérez Zalduondo — Foreword Igor Contreras Zubillaga & Helena Martín-Nieva — Music and Resistance: An Introduction Art Music as Resistance in European Dictatorships Erik Levi — Several Shades of Grey: Resistance amongst Composers during the Nazi Era Franziska Kollinger — Victory through Action? Modes of Resistance and the Front National des Musiciens Germán Gan-Quesada & Helena Martín-Nieva — Avant-garde Music, Political Commitment and Narratives of Resistance: A Perspective from Catalonia (1959-1978) Igor Contreras Zubillaga — A Way of Resistance? The Spanish Musical Avant-garde at the 1976 Venice Biennale Paolo Dal Molin — «A Masterpiece Inspired by the Resistance»: Arnold Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw in Post-war Italy Confronting the Holocaust and Captivity James A. Grymes — Spiritual and Civil Resistance in Performances of The Bartered Bride in Theresienstadt Bret Werb — Censorship, Sabotage and Self-Subversion in the Yiddish Shoah Song Elsa Calero-Carramolino — Musical (Re)Actions towards Captivity in Franco’s Prisons: Four Case Studies Anna Papaeti — Resisting Oppression: The Case of Mikis Theodorakis Identity-Based Resistance Siel Agugliaro — Musical Resistance through Strategic Essentialism: The Case of Italian Opera in Early Twentieth-Century United States Marged Flavia Trumper — Lord Krishna as a Symbol of Covert Resistance in a Female Vocal Genre of North India Apostolos Poulios, Antonis Iliadis & Manolis Seiragakis — Greek Theatrical Satirical Songs as Indices of Resistance Belén Vega Pichaco — Dancing Resistance in Cuba: Race, Sexuality and Humour in Ramiro Guerra’s Works Sonic Agency in Social Upheavals and Beyond Rūta Stanevičiūtė — Lithuanian Music and Resistance before the Baltic Singing Revolution Ricardo Álvarez & Paulina Bronfman — Banda Dignidad: Carnival, Artivism and Liminality in the Chilean Social Outbreak of October 2019 Mark Le Vine & Bryan Reynolds — The Miraculous Love Kids: Grrrl Power, Rock ’n’ Roll, and Rebellion in Afghanistan Brandon LaBelle — Acoustic Care: Communal Affection, Attention Ecologies, and Listening with Index of Names.…