Sonic Signatures: Music, Migration and the City at Night

by Derek Pardue (Editor), Ailbhe Kenny (Editor), Katie Young (Editor)

Overview

An anthology that evokes the music, residents, and vibrant nightlife of migrants in cities around the world.
 
Sonic Signatures interprets the music of contemporary migrants from Montreal to Rotterdam, Oslo to Tokyo. Drawing on research in urban musicology, international migration, and the emerging field of night studies, this edited volume illustrates that sonic signatures are fundamental to nighttime cityscapes, a way of experiencing space and belonging. Contributors to the anthology consider a wide array of genres—including EDM, batida do gueto, and iSicathamiya—to understand how migrants resist oppression, long for people and places, and shape their adopted cities through music. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789386998
Publisher:	Intellect, Limited
Publication date:	07/04/2023
Series:	Urban Music Studies
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Derek Pardue is associate professor of Brazilian studies within the Global Studies Department at Aarhus University in Denmark. He is the author of Cape Verde Let’s Go: Creole Rappers and Citizenship in Portugal. 


Ailbhe Kenny is a senior lecturer in music education at Mary Immaculate College University of Limerick. She is the author of Communities of Musical Practice and coeditor of Musician-Teacher Collaborations: Altering the Chord. 


Katie Young is a postdoctoral research fellow at Brock University, Canada.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Sensorial Belonging and Urban Migration: An Introduction to Sonic Signatures

Derek Pardue

 

Collaboration

 

Chapter 2: Music, Memory, and Migration at Night: Relational Ways of Knowing Through Arts-Based Collaborations

Katie Young and Ailbhe Kenny

 

Chapter 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

 

Street Sounds

 

Chapter 4: Nocturnal Polyphony: Mobile music-making as urban composition

Nick Dunn

 

Interlude 2: Tokyo After Hours

Nick Prior

 

Historicity

 

Chapter 5: Manolo D’Aro Post-Mortem – The Eternal and the Futurible in the Musical Landscapes of Francoist Experiential Capitalism

Pol Esteve

 

Chapter 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. Richie

 

Belonging

 

Chapter 7: Lisbon under construction: The nocturnal stylings of batida do gueto

Jacqueline Georgis

 

Chapter 8: (Be)Longing: Irish Musicking and Place-Making in Oslo, Norway

Áine Mangaoang

 

Interlude 4: A Praise Poem for the Diaspora

Brendan Kibbee

 

Discord

 

Chapter 9: Urban outcasts and the defiant iSicathamiya music

Sipho Sithole

 

Chapter 10: Rooms for resistance: migrants 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

Editorial Reviews

"Sonic Signatures is a compelling and multifaceted exploration of what urban soundscapes at night mean for migrants. Edited by Derek Pardue, Ailbhe Kenny, and Katie Young, the collection distinguishes itself from previous literature on cities and night time through its unique points of view and articulations as well as its innovative approaches and analyses to investigating the multisensorial aspects of darkness."
 

Journal of the International Association for the S Amin Hashemi

"The plural histories documented in Sonic Signatures are instructive, particularly when read in relation to other theories of cultural production, the construction of difference, sociality, and auditory communities. The volume’s focus on migratory flux and cross-pollination models a scholarly approach that is both deeply historically and culturally specific, but also takes into account change and the ongoing multiple directionalities of communication and influence, particularly vis-à-vis various forms of media. Modalities of music-making, reception, and circulation are always feeding back into one another, and across social, cultural, and linguistic borders. ‘We want the aural imaginary and it wants us’, Kheshti wrote over a decade ago; the essays in Sonic Signatures testify to that desire."
 

Visual Studies Caitlin Woolsey