Sonic Signatures : Music, Migration and the City at Night. This item is unavailable.Sonic Signatures : Music, Migration and the City at Night

Sonic Signatures is an interdisciplinary collaboration of scholars and music-makers who come together to explore how music makes cities. More specifically, they argue that the musical encounter, composed of an array of production and consumption practices, takes on particular and essential meaning at night. Thinking about music as an encounter allows one to appreciate the value and power of migration within the act of music-making.

The majority of voices amplified in the book come from so-called “migrants,” understood as someone who was born in one country and currently lives and works in another. Yet, these words, migration, migrant and migrancy, are more expansive than that as they indicate a range of movement, politics and place-making.

Contributions from Emilie Amrein, André de Quadros, Nick Dunn, Pol Esteve, Jillian Fulton-Melanson, Jacqueline Georgis, Masimba Hwati, Ailbhe Kenny, Seger Kersbergen, Brendan Kibbee, Áine Mangaoang, Derek Pardue, Nick Prior, Austin T. Richie, Willians Santos, Sipho Sithole, Gibran Teixeira Braga, Katie Young.

A great, engaging transdisciplinary contribution to nightlife studies, music and the city.

Derek Pardue is an associate professor in the Global Studies Department at Aarhus University in Denmark. His work has mostly concerned the political and aesthetic expressions of belonging among migrants and marginalized urban dwellers in Brazil, Portugal, Cape Verde and Denmark. His most recent books include Living (Il)legalities in Brazil, Sonic Signatures and Sobrevivendo no Inferno (Routledge, 2020), a collection of short stories inspired by the eponymous album release by the legendary Brazilian rap group Racionais MCs as part of the 33 1/3 music series.

Contact: Aarhus University, Global Studies Department, Jens Chr Skous Vej, 7, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark.

Dr Ailbhe Kenny is based at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. She is a Fulbright scholar, EURIAS fellow, Irish Research Council Laureate and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. Ailbhe is currently a PI on the HERA-funded project ‘Night Spaces: Migration, Culture and Integration in Europe’ (2019–22) and IRC-funded ‘Music in the Intercultural School: Uncovering Spaces for Agency and Belonging’ (2022–26).

Contact: Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, South Circular Road, Limerick, V94 VN26, Ireland.

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.