Politics of Post-9/11 Music: Sound Trauma and the Music Industry in the Time of Terror

Seeking to extend discussions of 9/11 music beyond the acts typically associated with the September 11th attacks”U2 Toby Keith The Dixie Chicks Bruce Springsteen”this collection interrogates the politics of a variety of post-9/11 music scenes. Contributors add an aural dimension to what has been a visual conceptualization of this important moment in US history by articulating the role that lesser-known contemporary musicians have played”or have refused to play”in constructing a politics of protest in direct response to the trauma inflicted that day. Encouraging new conceptualizations of what constitutes 'political music' The Politics of Post-9/11 Music covers topics as diverse as the rise of Internet music distribution Christian punk rock rap music in the Obama era and nostalgia for 1960s political activism.