• Publication date: 11/2020
  • Volume: 39
  • Issue: 4
Foreword

The Anthropocene is noisy, sonic and full of music. The emergence of listening as method has been brought to the forefront of the arts/science/creativity nexus. Less invasive, and rich in outcomes than other methods, this approach highlights that our need to listen to our planet and each other has never been more urgent. In the pre-COVID cacophony of the seemingly dying embers of late-stage capitalism, the world was flooded with divisive rhetoric pushing our world further into the isolating social silence of the market of one. In 2020, the proliferation of a Global pandemic seemed to change the music of the planet and its people. In the year that was, with one ear we could hear the calls for meaningful change in the Black Lives Matter Movement and Extinction rebellion, and with the other ear the endless dull roar of neo-feudal corporatism brought about the storming of a capital, the raucous argument for economy over humanity, and the continued cries as the environment was being sacrificed at the altar of the almighty dollar. And yet, for one short minute, the earth stood still. We could hear the seas again. Our ceasing of an endless need for consumption and travel heard the return of moments of meaningful stillness.

  Title Author(s)
Foreword
3 Music, Performance and Protest Andy Ward
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Articles
5 Civil Discobedience: ‘Bad environmentalism’, queer time and the role of popular music’s past in Extinction Rebellion Catherine Strong
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12 Adored Pop Star or Freaky Artiste: The evolution of Harry Styles Hannah Joyce Banks
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19 Everyday Life and Songs of Resistance in Manipur Priti Laishram
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27 The MacGyver Approach: Teaching economy of availability in tertiary music education during COVID-19 Briony Luttrell, Lachlan Goold and Andy Ward
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33 Incorporating Resistance Practices in Hip-Hop: How Kendrick Lamar morphed from Black Saviour to Black Salesman Krishan Meepe
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40 Resisting the Guru Mentality: An Essay on Pedagogies Towards Personal Empowerment in Actor Training Jo Loth
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45 A Critique of the Western Sociological Tradition Using the Japanangka Paradigm Marten Koomen
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Poetry
3 Black Smokers Margaret Dingle
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4 Personality test Margaret Dingle
11 invisible hostile employee Steve Brock
11 Schoolgirl Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton
11 Ian Curtis tours America Shane Strange
26 URBAN ARCHIPELAGO Vyxz Vasquez
32 Close to Home Heather Taylor-Johnson
39 Mumbai Shuffle Cath Kenneally
44 Bird Man Steve Brock
54 Mariette Handke talks with her book group friends Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton
59 Five Haiku Grant Caldwell
59 Robert Linhart’s wife Shane Strange
59 Face Shane Strange
61 absolute shrew Ella O’Keefe
61 Another Danged Migraine Heather Taylor-Johnson
62 River Run Cath Kenneally
Misc.
55 Permesso? [Creative Non-Fiction] Paul Williams
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60 Passionfruit Politics [Prose Micro-Fiction] Georgia Rose Phillips
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