Dissonant Sounds

Michael Bull is Professor of Sound Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is co-founder and editor of the journal Senses and Society, founding editor of Sound Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and series editor for the book series The Study of Sound (Bloomsbury). He is author of Sirens (Bloomsbury 2020) and co-editor (with Marcel Cobussen) of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies (Bloomsbury 2020). He is also co-editor of The Auditory Culture Reader (Bloomsbury 2003, 2016) and editor of The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies (2018).Malcolm James is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is author of Sonic Intimacy (Bloomsbury 2020), Urban Multiculture: Youth, Politics and Cultural Transformation (2015), and co-editor of Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss in East London (2018).

• IntroductionMalcolm James and Michael Bull Diaspora, Belonging and Conviviality1. Dispersed Sounds: Carrying Words in The Body-Vessel to Plant in Other LandsMoushumi Bhowmik and Ben Rogaly2. Claiming the Capitalist Soundscape: Nigerian Workers’ Construction of Identity in DubaiJaana Serres3. Sounds of (self)care: The case of Batuku in the Lisbon Metropolitan AreaHanna Stepanik4. The Chilean Diaspora, September 11th and the Diasporic Sounds of ProtestCarolina Ramírez5. Sonic belonging: South Indian music, migration and the politics of belongingJasmine Hornabrook6. Sonic diaspora in a tropical metropolis: Colombian cumbia fuelling the spirit of Mexico CityJohn Loewenthal7. Diasporic longing and sounds of belongingMini Chandran Kurian8. Diasporic sound cultures and convivial football fandom in multicultural BritainJohn Doyle and Daniel Burdsey9. Homesick Radio and Diasporic MelancholiaJoseph PalisCultural Politics, Affectivity and Diaspora10. South Asian Diasporic Classical SoundscapesG. Ali Shair and Virinder S. Kalra11. From sound to hypersound: the cultural politics of UK drill and hyperpopMalcolm James12. Dancing as one man: Tikur Sound System and asylum in southern ItalyCourtney Yusuf13. “Ecoutez le chant gaúcho-brésilien”: musical translation as a politics of belonging amongst Haitian migrants in Southern BrazilCaetano Maschio Santos14. Drumming Belongingness in the Indian Ocean World: Marfa and the Sonic Politics Siddi-Hadrami Diaspora in HyderabadKhadeeja Amenda15. South African Township Jazz in London. The Black Atlantic and the Freedom to BreatheMichael Bull16. ‘Looks like it’s a man’s world’: Young Women Rappers and Violence in East LondonBaljit Kaur17. Word, Sound and Power: Afro-diasporic Music(s) as Black Radical Thought in SoundLambros Fatsis18. Lamenting Brexit across Berlin: reflecting on sonic ethnographic choral experiences with British migrants Christy Kulz19. Coke Studio Pakistan YouTube: music, political contestation and cultural citizenshipMunira Cheema