Fernando Orejuela and Stephanie Shonekan, eds. 2018. Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection.

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Fernando Orejuela and Stephanie Shonekan, eds. 2018. Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 126 pp. ISBN 9780253038425 (pbk)

COVID-19 and the Ugandan Presidential Election: Contesting Lockdown Authority in Popular Songs

“…There have been an increasing number of studies that focus on how music, digitally circulated music in particular, is involved in the contestation of international-scale media events. Digitally circulated popular music played an important role in generating and (mis)representing the Arab Uprisings of 2011 (McDonald 2019;Tudoroiu 2014), the Occupy movement of that same year (Bianchi 2018), and the Black Lives Matter movement (Orejuela & Shonekan 2018). The use of music to shape an event in the public imagination is not a new phenomenon; historians have explored, for example, the role of music in etching particular images of the French Revolution in European consciousness-from "La Marseillaise" to the symphonies of Beethoven (Boyd 1992).…”