AFRIKADAA N°17 / Politics of sound #2

 "Politics of Sound" Music repairing bodies and stories.

The theme "Politics of Sound" invites us to explore the role of music as a social and political force, an often overlooked but incredibly powerful listening to our culture and society. Escaping the visible, music is able to reflect, perceive and hear the world in a more accurate way, masked by the gaze.
To celebrate the year 2024, the magazine Afrikadaa offers in its next issue Politics of Sound #2 a captivating archaeology of musical sounds and movements as impulses, rhythms, convulsions, riots, uprisings, fluctuations and beats of social, political and cultural transformations.
This issue is committed to questioning the multiplicity of musical currents that have marked the struggles for freedoms, civil rights or pan-African movements. Through fictional narratives, the aim is to build bridges between an aesthetic history and a social and political history of sound and music, thus revealing their profound cultural and political influence and the interdependence of these influences. Here, music is the promise and movement towards different worlds. In a decolonial listening, it is understood as a gesture of resistance and cultural reappropriation. Music and sounds then become privileged spaces, both material and immaterial, past, present, future and in the making, where marginalized voices can be expressed, where liberation can be imagined and alternative narratives can take shape.