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Abstract: This thesis examines the relationship between sound and political protest during the period of the nascent Trump presidency. Drawing on ethnographic work done from 2016-2017, I advance the following claims. First, I argue that the disordering and reconfiguration of public space creates a condition of possibility for the manifestation of what I propose is a unique political subject comprised ... read moreof an irreducible multiplicity of bodies. Crucially, it is collective, participatory sound that plays the constitutive role in the coalescence of this subject. I consider a number of case studies, some in which this political subject manifests, and some in which it does not. Second, I suggest that, in addition to the aforementioned political subjectivation, sound can model not just a political project or an ethical relation, but an alternate form of life.
Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2018.
Submitted to the Dept. of Music.
Advisor: Joseph Auner.
Committee: Alessandra Campana, and Jeffrey Summit.
Keyword: Music.read less
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