Music and Protest - key quote not to forget!

Mario Diani (1992)

social mvts are ‘networks of informal interactions … on the basis of shared collective indentity’

Edwards and McCarthy (2004)

‘Music helps movements maintain capacity for collective action’

John Street (2012)

‘Musicians become politicians as music has been a source of politics for years’

John Street (2017)

‘the state makes unpolitical music poitical’

Kramer (1990)

Music itself rarely raises questions, it is the interpretation put on the music that evokes questions and discussion

Dowding (1996)

‘power over’ vs ‘power to’ - agency

Jane Bennet (2010)

‘Thing power’ - non-human agency e.g the agency of noise, music, objects. Agency isn’t just active human and passive object

Peter Cusack (2013)

Sonic Journalism - all sounds transmit important information giving an impression of what it is like to be somewhere

John Sterne

Sonic architecture - music in everyday shapes society

Jacques Attali

control over sound has long been essential to hegemonic control

Abigail Ellman (2019)

‘Police have gotten very good at controlling where people move, but they cannot control where sound moves. And so music … occupies space where bodies cannot’

Carol Vernallis (2019)

• Use of colour and texture to convey music and story 

• Role of the lyrics 

•  Influence of the rhythm on the narrative flow 

• Use of costuming to underscore music and story 

• The role of harmony 

• Depictions of race, class, gender and sexuality 

• Moment-to-moment instances of audiovisual synchronisation

Lyndon Way (2013)

music videos images makes discourse more explicit

idea of multimodal analysis examinings lyrics, images and musical sounds

Tom Western (2021)

‘The mobile phone becomes a loudspeaker … that binds a community together’

Tuck, McKinzie and McCoy (2014)

Exploitative vs settler colonialism

• Exploitative – small number of colonisers to extract labour and resources 

• Settler – Replacing Indigenous peoples and claiming land as own 

• ‘Settler colonialism is indeed ongoing and not an event contained in the past’ 

• Settler colonialism it is built upon not recognising itself so is often painted over

Fiorella Diaz-Montero (2016)

‘fusion musicking creates liminal spaces where ideal relationships are imagined’