We are very pleased to announce the publication of the most recent issue of MUSICultures (44-2), a special issue on Singers and Songs of Social Protest guest edited by Dr. Aileen Dillane and Martin J. Power (both of the University of Limerick).
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The contents of this issue include:
MARTIN J. POWER and AILEEN DILLANE
Introduction: Songs and Singers of Social Protest
ILLA CARRILLO RODRÍGUEZ
Back from Exile: Nueva Canción and Canción Protesta as Cultural Heritage in Early 1980s Argentina
MARTIN J. POWER, AILEEN DILLANE, and EOIN DEVEREUX
“You’ll Never Kill Our Will To Be Free”: Damien Dempsey’s “Colony” as a Critique of Historical and Contemporary Colonialism
GEOFFROY COLSON
From Pacific Resistance to pacific resistance: Expressions of Māʻohi-ness in Contemporary Tahitian Popular Music
JADA WATSON
“If They Blow a Hole in the Backbone”: Sarah Harmer’s Campaign to Protect the Niagara Escarpment
JULIE RICKWOOD
Lament, Poetic Prayer, Petition, and Protest: Community Choirs and Environmental Activism in Australia
*** BOOK REVIEWS
SHAWN M. HIGGINS
Noriko Manabe. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music After Fukushima
KATE GALLOWAY
Review Essay: Huib Schippers and Catherine Grant, eds. Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures: An Ecological Perspective; Aaron S. Allen and Kevin Dawe, eds. Current Directions in Ecomusicology: Music, Culture, Nature
MONIQUE DESROCHES
Peter Manuel. Tales, Tunes and Tassa Drums: Retention and Innovation in Indo-Caribbean Music
ANNA MORCOM
Anna Marie Stirr. Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal
BART VANSPAUWEN
Derek Pardue. Cape Verde, Let’s Go: Creole Rappers and Citizenship in Portugal
JOSHUA GREEN
Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone. Queerness in Heavy Metal Music: Metal Bent
DENIS-CONSTANT MARTIN
Gavin Steingo. Kwaito’s Promise, Music, and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa
ANTHONY GRÉGOIRE
Charlotte Poulet et Nicolas Bénard, dir. Chant pensé, chant vécu, temps chanté : Formes, usages et représentations des pratiques vocales