Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance

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'Empathy is the currency of all music and Joe Mulhall does a great job of explaining how that quality has been used to generate solidarity for the struggle and sympathy for those who suffer injustice' Billy Bragg

While the global history of the dictatorships, oppression, racism and state violence over the last century is well known - the role that music played in people's lives during these times is less understood.

This book is a collection of stories and hidden histories about how music provided light in the darkest of times over the past century. How it steeled souls and inspired resistance to oppression. Rebel Sounds will explore freedom songs in the Republic of Ireland, the Soviet Union's oppression behind the Berlin Wall, authoritarian dictatorships in Brazil and Nigeria, institutionalised racism and police violence in America and South Africa, street violence in Britain, ethnic cleansing in the Balkans and musical resistance in war-torn Ukraine.

This is a social history of the twentieth century but one that takes in the human impulse to create, share and enjoy the one thing that connects cultures and spans generations: music.

'Illuminating, uplifting and important' James O'Brien

À propos de l'auteur

Joe Mulhall is a historian, journalist and writer. He is the Director of Research at the UK's largest anti-fascism organisation, HOPE not hate. Joe has published a series of books focusing on far-right extremism including British Fascism After The Holocaust and the co-authored The International Alt-Right: Fascism for the Twentieth Century? and in 2021 he published Drums in the Distance: Journeys in the Global Far Right.

He has written for the Guardian, Independent and New Statesman, appears regularly on international broadcast media and has worked on numerous documentaries including Undercover in the Alt-Right.

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