REBEL MUSICS
List of Contributors/Table of Contents
Daniel Fischlin is Professor of English at the University of Guelph and co-author with Martha Nandorfy of Eduardo Galeano: Through the Looking Glass (Black Rose Books 2002). He has been active as a musician for most of his life and this is his fourth book devoted to an interdisciplinary musical topic.
Ajay Heble is Professor of English at the University of Guelph. He is the author of Landing on the Wrong Note: Jazz, Dissonance, and Critical Practice and co-editor (with Daniel Fischlin)of The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue. Artistic Director and Founder of The Guelph Jazz Festival, he is also a pianist. His first CD, a live recording of improvised music with percussionist Jesse Stewart, was released on the IntrepidEar label.
Take One / Rebel Musics: Human Rights, Resistant Sounds, and the Politics of Music Making: Daniel Fischlin
1 / Hangin' Out on the Corner of Music and Resistance
Ron Sakolsky is now happily living in BC exile outside the belly of the beast. He is the editor of Surrealist Subversions (Autonomedia, 2002), and the co-editor of Seizing The Airwaves: A Free Radio Handbook (with Stephen Dunifer, AK Press, 1998), Sounding Off!: Music as Subversion/Resistance/Revolution (with Fred Ho, Autonomedia, 1995), and Gone To Croatan: Origins of Drop-Out Culture in North America (with James Koehnline, Autonomedia, 1993). He continues to write regular music reviews and features for The Beat magazine and is a dancehall selector for the Fools Paradise Sound System.
2 / Making Rebel Musics: The Film
Marie Boti and Malcolm Guy are filmmakers from Montreal whose work reflects over 25 years of globalized political activism. They are currently working on a collection of documentary films entitled Rebel Music, produced by Productions Multi-Monde, a company they founded in 1987. Musiques rebelles Québec was released in 2002, Rebel Music Américas is in production and they are developing further films with Hind Benchekroun in Africa and Asia. The Rebel Music documentary collection is based on an original idea by Marie Boti and Hind Benchekroun. Check out the Productions Multi-Monde web site at http://www.pmm.qc.ca .
3 / Freedom Music: Jazz and Human Rights
Jesse Stewart is a percussionist, composer, instrument builder, and writer living in Guelph, Ontario. He has performed with many internationally acclaimed musicians including jazz legends Roswell Rudd and George Lewis as well as Carlo Actis Dato, Gerry Hemingway, and many others. He is currently a member of the David Mott Quintet in addition to performing regularly as a soloist and in ad-hoc musical settings.
4 / Gospel as Protest: The African-Nova Scotian Spiritual and the Lyrics of Delvina Bernard
George Elliott Clarke is an acclaimed poet and an English professor at the University of Toronto. His pioneering study, Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature, appeared in 2002. In 2001, Clarke received the Governor-General's Award for Poetry.
5 / The Blues: A Discourse of Resistance
Ray Pratt is Professor of Political Science at Montana State University. He has hosted a blues/jazz radio program for 25 years. He is the author of Rhythm and Resistance: Political Uses of American Popular Music (Praeger) and Projecting Paranoia: Conspiratorial Visions in American Film (Kansas).
6 / Rhythm Activism: A "Rebel News Orchestra / Rock 'n roll Cabaret" Band
Norman Nawrocki is a Montreal cabaret artist, author and musician who tours the world promoting creative resistance. His last book, about a band tour of Europe, was The Anarchist & The Devil Do Cabaret (Black Rose Books, 2003). His last CD, with another band, the self-titled DaZoque!
7 / The Right to Live in Peace: Freedom and Social Justice in the Songs of Violeta Parra and Victor Jara
Martha Nandorfy is the author of The Poetics of Apocalypse: García Lorca's Poet in New York and co-author (with Daniel Fischlin) of a book on the relation between human rights and literature in the work of Eduardo Galeano, entitled Eduardo Galeano: Through the Looking Glass (Black Rose Books, 2002). She has published numerous articles and reviews on film, Latin American literature, children's literature, and is working on a book dealing with Pedro Almodóvar's cinematic representation of queer, communitarian Utopia.
8 / Global Youth and Local Pleasure: Cuba and the Right to Popular Music
Timothy Brennan is a Professor of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, and English, at the University of Minnesota, and the Director of the Humanities Institute. He is the author of Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation (Macmillan, 1989) and At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now (Harvard, 1997). He has recently introduced, co-translated, and edited Music in Cuba by Alejo Carpentier. (U of Minnesota Press, 2001), and has just completed Cultures of Belief.
Take Two / Rebel Musics: Human Rights, Resistant Sounds, and the Politics of Music Making: Ajay Heble
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