Music and Social Justice (Series)

Music and Social Justice seeks projects that engage with the dynamic roles of music, sound, artists, and activists within and across agendas of social justice, past and present. We are interested in how music and musicians make and unmake worlds, nations, communities, and bodies. We welcome monographs, edited volumes, graphic novels, multimedia projects, and alternative modes of scholarly-creative endeavors. And we are open to prospective authors who wish to challenge the rhetorical, discursive, and presentational norms of academic prose in the name of experimentalism, outreach, anti-capitalism, anti-colonialism, and neurodiversity.

Series Editors
William Cheng (@willxcheng), Dartmouth College
Andrew Dell’Antonio (@dellantonio), University of Texas at Austin

Series Editorial Board
Naomi André
Suzanne G. Cusick
Ellie M. Hisama
Mark Katz
Alejandro L. Madrid
Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels
Carol J. Oja
Shana L. Redmond

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Hip-Hop Civics

Connected Learning in the Rap Classroom

How Hip-Hop-based education can engage Black and Brown students in civic education

Hold Me Down

How the concept of feel is used to write songs

Teaching Difficult Topics

Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom

Reflections from college music instructors offering various approaches to inclusive, supportive pedagogy in the classroom.

Improvising Across Abilities

Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument

An exploration of the instrument that allows everyone to access artistic practice

Rape at the Opera

Staging Sexual Violence

How opera practitioners represent sexual violence on today’s opera stages

Jamming the Classroom

Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice

Musical improvisation as a vehicle for teaching, learning, and enacting social justice

For the Culture

Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice

Examines the relationship between social justice, Hip-Hop culture, and resistance

Sonorous Worlds

Musical Enchantment in Venezuela

In Venezuela’s El Sistema, music is both a means of government control and a form of emancipation for youth musicians

Singing Out

GALA Choruses and Social Change

Examines whether LGBT choruses can change the hearts and minds of their audiences

Performing Commemoration

Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma

An edited collection about the roles music plays in public commemoration of traumatic events

Sounding Dissent

Rebel Songs, Resistance, and Irish Republicanism

In Belfast’s rebel music scene, Irish republican musicians and audiences engage in ritualized resistance against the British state