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.
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.
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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
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