Sonic forms of resistance: Artistic and political practices
| Title | Ηχητικές μορφές αντίστασης: Καλλιτεχνικές και πολιτικές πρακτικές / Sonic forms of resistance: Artistic and political practices |
| Code | ΙΠ2042 |
| Faculty | Fine Arts |
| School | Music Studies |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Coordinator | Eleni Ikoniadou |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600027815 |
Programme of Study: PPS Tmīmatos Mousikṓn Spoudṓn (2017-sīmera)
Registered students: 73
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Musicology / Music Education | Elective Courses | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| Music Composition | Elective Courses | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| Academic Year | 2025 – 2026 |
| Class Period | Winter |
| Faculty Instructors |
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| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Total Hours | 39 |
| Class ID | 600282001
|
Course Type 2021
General Knowledge
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600282001
Language of Instruction
- Greek (Instruction, Examination)
- English (Examination)
Learning Outcomes
-Critically analyse the relationship between sound and power in various historical and social contexts.
- Participate creatively in group exercises that explore the political dimension of the auditory experience.
- Become aware of contemporary issues of individual and collective social and political interventions.
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Adapt to new situations
- Make decisions
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Generate new research ideas
- Design and manage projects
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
This course explores sound as a medium of political expression and resistance against colonial, repressive, and patriarchal regimes. It analyses sonic practices in protests, artistic interventions, and resisting communities. It focuses on examples from contemporary sound art, musical forms of protest and the acoustic politics of public space.
Keywords
onic activism, protest, resistance, radical musical practices, sound and social movements
Educational Material Types
- Notes
- Slide presentations
- Audio
- Multimedia
- Interactive excersises
- Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Laboratory Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
- Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 39 | 1.3 | ✓ | ||
| Reading Assigment | 45 | 1.5 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Field trips and participation in conferences / seminars / activities | ✓ | ||||
| Written assigments | 45 | 1.5 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Artistic creation | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Total | 129 | 4.3 |
Student Assessment
Description
Students will be assessed via the submission of a collaborative project in the form of a written essay (also individual) or artistic intervention, to be submitted at the end of the semester. A public presentation (formative) of the written or artistic work will precede the final submission during the last lessons, followed by a group discussion with the aim of providing feedback. Further details will be made available on the e-learning platform at the beginning of the semester.
Student Assessment methods
- Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
- Performance / Staging (Formative, Summative)
- Artistic Performance (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
I. Pappe and K. Natanel, Αντίσταση, Αποικιοκρατία και Παλαιστίνη, Σαλτο, 2025 (κωδικός 143553644)
M. Fisher, Η Ακύρωση του Μέλλοντος, Αντίποδες, 2024 (κωδικός 143550305)
Additional bibliography for study
A.A. Azoulay, Potential History, Unlearning Imperialism, Verso, 2019
M. Feldman, 'Fugitive Voice', Music and Sound at the Edges of History No. 154 (Spring 2021), pp10-22, University of California Press
S. Harney and F. Moten, All Incomplete, Minor Compositions, 2021, (https://monoskop.org/images/d/df/Harney_Stefano_Moten_Fred_All_Incomplete_2021.pdf)
S. Harney and F. Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study, Minor Compositions, 2013, (https://blogs.ubc.ca/virtualkoerners/files/2020/09/moten-harney_undercommons5-7.pdf)
A. Iles, Mattin, Θόρυβοι και Καπιταλισμός, Ηδύφωνο, 2019
W.E.B. Du Bois, 'Of the Sorrow Songs' from The Souls of Black Folk, 1903 (https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the-sorrow-songs/)
G. Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Harvard University Press, 2009 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MqCPapLcuc)
F. Moten, In the Break: The Aesthetics of Black Radicak Tradition, University of Minnesota Press, 2003
Γ. Νικολαΐδης, «Είμαστε τελοί κι ευτυχισμένοι», Φωτογραφίζοντας την άγρια πλευρά της δεκαετίας του ᾽80, ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΣΤΟ ΠΕΡΙΘΩΡΙΟ, 2017
E. Said, Music at the Limits, Bloomsbury, 2009
E. Said and D. Barenboim, Parallel and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society, Bloomsbury, 2004
N. wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the Mind, Zimbabwe Publishing House, 1981
Bring the Noise, Δεκαπέντε Κείμενα για το Χιπ Χοπ, Α 71 και Τεφλον, 2018
Last Update
15-10-2025
