REBEL Sounds: Music as Resistance

Join us on 11th December to celebrate all things music and resistance!

In Rebel Sounds, Joe Mulhall uncovers how music has shaped resistance movements across the globe, from Irish protest songs to Apartheid South Africa to the artists in Ukraine today.

While the global history of the dictatorships, oppression, racism and state violence over the last century is well
known - the role that music played in people's lives during these times is less understood.
This book is a collection of stories and hidden histories about how music provided light in the darkest of times
over the past century. How it steeled souls and inspired resistance to oppression. Rebel Sounds will explore
freedom songs in the Republic of Ireland, the Soviet Union's oppression behind the Berlin Wall, authoritarian
dictatorships in Brazil and Nigeria, institutionalised racism and police violence in America and South Africa,
street violence in Britain, ethnic cleansing in the Balkans and musical resistance in war-torn Ukraine.

About the author:
Dr Joe Mulhall is a researcher and historian of postwar and contemporary fascism and is currently Senior Researcher at Hope not Hate, the UK's largest anti-fascism and anti-racism organisation.
He has given talks around the world on his research and written for a range of print media.

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