Festival Activism

David A. McDonald is Associate Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. He is the author and editor of four books, including My Voice is My Weapon, Palestinian Music and Song, At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice, and Holy Land Five: Palestinian Charity in the US "War on Terror." Andrew G. Snyder is currently a Research Fellow in the Instituto de Etnomusicologia-música e dança at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal. He is the author of Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro and editor with Isabel Machado of the Journal of Festive Studies, editor with Reebee Garofalo and Erin T. Allen of HONK!: A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism, and coeditor of At the Crossroads: Music and Social Justice. Jeremy Reed is a recent PhD graduate in Ethnomusicology from Indiana University. His research explores Jordanian festivals as sites of cultural and political performance. He is currently working as a public humanities specialist in Bloomington, Indiana.

Introduction: Festival Activism, by David A. McDonald, Andrew Snyder, and Jeremy Reed
Disruption
1. Carnival Arts and "Freedom Dreams": An Ethnography of Culture, Power, and Black Political Struggle in London's Carnival Scene, by Deonte L. Harris
2. Rethinking Relational Geometries in Musical Events in Europe: Artistic Devices and Activist Implications, by Filippo Bonini Baraldi
Refuge
3. An Accessible Carnival: Festivity, Inclusion, and Disability in Rio de Janeiro, by Andrew Snyder
4. The Festivalization of Feminism, DIY Music, and Intersecting Identities at Ladyfests, by Louise Barrière
Renewal
5. Love Songs that Protest: Sentipensante Music Making as Postneoliberal Activism in the Neighborhood Tango Festivals of Buenos Aires, by Jennie Gubner
6. Al-Balad Theater: Festivals as Sites of Social Action and Community Development in Neoliberal Jordan, by Jeremy Reed and Serene Huleileh
7. Resignifying Traditional Festive Culture for Progressive Ends in Portugal, by Miguel Moniz
Deliberation
8. Another Possible World: Transnational Activism at WOMAD, by James Nissen
9. Babaláwo and Bataleras: Translocal Academic and Ritual Activism at the Festival of the Caribbean (Festival del Caribe) in Eastern Santiago de Cuba, by Ruthie Meadows
10. Festival Study as a Framework for Dialogic Social Justice: A Perspective from Johannesburg, by Oladele Ayorinde
Futurity
11. Festival Futurity at the Palestine Music Expo, by David A. McDonald
12. "The Many Ways We Are Alike": The Perils of Multiculturalism in Boise's World Village Festival, by Kimberly Marshall and Steven Hatcher
13. Afterword: The Work That Music Festivals Do, by Eric Fillion and Ajay Heble
List of Contributors
Index