Guerrilla Music

Guerrilla Music explores bands, events, and musical and social movements to investigate the ways music acts as a means of defiance, resistance, or subversion, and how music brings people together to explicate their social, political, locational, religious, or cultural beliefs.

Guerrilla Music is an inspirational collection of thoroughly grounded discussions and illustrations of how music and musicking can be sites of political protest and expression. The chapters cover an exceptionally diverse range of socio-musical contexts, styles and genres from around the world. I learned a lot of really interesting stuff from this exceptional book, which is sure to make a mark on the sociology of music, ethnomusicology, critical musicology, music education and many more areas.

Guerrilla Music takes a daring dive into music as a disruptive, resistant, and rebellious force. This is a relevant and challenging exploration into music as a global means to enact justice, a human initiative that can upset societal norms and help to focus attention on the universality of perpetual harm occurring in our time.

Leon de Bruin is senior lecturer in music at the University of Melbourne, Conservatorium of Music, coordinating the Master of Music Performance Teaching Degree (MMPT).
Jane Southcott is professor in the faculty of education at Monash University.