Sonic Signatures

Music, Migration and the City at Night

Derek Pardue (Aarhus University), Ailbhe Kenny (Mary Immaculate College, Ireland), Katie Young

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Intellect Books
04 July 2023

Theory of music & musicology; Migration, immigration & emigration

Series: Urban Music Studies

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.

Edited by: Derek Pardue (Aarhus University), Ailbhe Kenny (Mary Immaculate College, Ireland), Katie Young
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781789386967
ISBN 10: 1789386969
Series: Urban Music Studies
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 04 July 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Sonic Signatures: Music, Migration and the City at Night

'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.' -- Caitlin Woolsey, Visual Studies