Sonic Signatures

Derek Pardue holds a Ph.D in cultural anthropology and is an associate professor in global studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. He has conducted fieldwork and archival research in Brazil, Portugal, Denmark and Cape Verde. Ailbhe Kenny is a senior lecturer in music education at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. Her research is widely published internationally; she is the author of Communities of Musical Practice (Routledge, 2016) and co-editor of Musician-Teacher Collaborations: Altering the Chord (Routledge, 2018).  Katie Young holds a Ph.D in music and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Brock University, Canada and editorial assistant for Ethnomusicology Forum journal. Katie has conducted research in Ghana, Ireland and Canada, and has published in a range of journals and edited volumes.      

List of Figures 



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



Derek Pardue



PART 1: COLLABORATION 



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



Katie Young and Ailbhe Kenny



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



PART 2: STREET SOUNDS



4. Nocturnal Polyphony: Mobile Music-Making as Urban Composition



Nick Dunn



Interlude 2. ‘Tokyo After Hours’



Nick Prior



PART 3: HISTORICITY



5. Manolo D’Aro Postmortem: The Eternal and the Futurible in the Musical Landscapes of Francoist Experiential Capitalism



Pol Esteve Castelló



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. Richey



PART 4: BELONGING



7. Lisbon Under Construction: The Nocturnal Stylings of batida do gueto



Jacqueline Georgis



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



Áine Mangaoang



Interlude 4. ‘New York Ne Dort Pas’



Brendan Kibbee



PART 5: DISCORD



9. Urban Outcasts and the Defiant iSicathamiya Music



Sipho Sithole



10. Rooms for Resistance: Migration 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



Notes on Contributors



Index