Tag: Defiance

Guerrilla Music Musicking as Resistance, Defiance, and Subversion


Free Download Leon de Bruin, "Guerrilla Music: Musicking as Resistance, Defiance, and Subversion"
English | ISBN: 1666944033 | 2024 | 258 pages | EPUB, PDF | 7 MB + 2 MB
Guerrilla Music: Musicking as Resistance, Defiance, and Subversion explores human initiations and responses to music as a process and product intrinsically part of our culture, history, place, time and ecological musical worlds. The contributors challenge scholarly approaches wherein music is detached from the social relationships in which it is produced, transmitted, used and judged. ‘Guerrilla’ is a trope long applied to socio-political machinations, human conflict and confrontation. Guerrilla Music provocatively explores research involving music practices, stories, communities and musickers worldwide that resist, defy and subvert by silence and non-compliance, reluctant subordination, subversive depowering, resistive counterpoint, or destructive, violent dismantling. Contexts spanning the subcultural local, glocal and universal highlight the potency, passions, actions and life worlds of music, musicians and those that become engulfed in musical maelstroms that incite change. Guerrilla Music both invigorates and advances scholarly debates about social power, colonisation and difference by exploring the social semiotics of music making and communities, identifying powerful new ways of understanding human communication, and what musicking means in the twenty-first century.

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The Great Defiance


Free Download The Great Defiance by David Veevers
English | May 25, 2023 | ISBN: 1529109957 | 629 pages | PDF | 12 Mb
The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set. In fact, far from being the tale of a single nation imposing its will upon the world, the British Empire found itself reshaped by the tenacious resistance of the powerful Indigenous and non-European people it encountered. From ill-advised ventures in Ireland to the failure to curtail North African Corsair states all the way to the collapse of commercial operations in East Asia, British attempts to create an imperial enterprise often ended in embarrassment and even disaster.

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Resist! How to Be an Activist in the Age of Defiance


Free Download Resist!: How to Be an Activist in the Age of Defiance by HUCK Magazine, Michael Segalov, Molly Crabapple
English | August 28, 2018 | ISBN: 1786272067 | 208 pages | PDF | 65 Mb
Resist! is the indispensable how-to guide for people looking to make a stand. Included are solid pieces of advice, practical tips, and inspirational stories from those who have already successfully stood up and made a difference. Learn the principles of direct action, discover strategies for tackling social media, unearth ideas for motivating others, and understand how to get access to the people in power and get your message across. With an inspiring foreword by Molly Crabapple.

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The Great Defiance


Free Download David Veevers, "The Great Defiance"
English | ISBN: 1529109957 | 2023 | 0 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set. In fact, far from being the tale of a single nation imposing its will upon the world, the British Empire found itself reshaped by the tenacious resistance of the powerful Indigenous and non-European people it encountered. From ill-advised ventures in Ireland to the failure to curtail North African Corsair states all the way to the collapse of commercial operations in East Asia, British attempts to create an imperial enterprise often ended in embarrassment and even disaster.

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