Music in Australia Songs of Protest and Healing Assignment 2022

Running head: MUSIC IN AUSTRALIA – SONGS OF PROTEST AND HEALING
MUSIC IN AUSTRALIA – SONGS OF PROTEST AND HEALING
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Walker, G.R., 2018. ‘Our songs were our stones’: song and struggle in the treatment action
campaign. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 36(2), pp.175-190.
Walker (2018) in the article entitled “‘Our songs were our stones’: song and struggle in
the treatment action campaign” discusses the use of the music as one of the major ways to
demonstrate the protests against the anti-retroviral therapies that had been implemented within
the South African territories. The paper in discussion highlighted the incorporation of music as
one of the major factors that are highlighted as the protest mediums within the country. The
songs were generally used to deal with the mobilization of the people within the country against
the racial and the socio-economic discrimination that is implemented by the concerned
organization as well. The article highlights the factors that state music helps to unite people
against the various issues that they have been facing due to the implementation of the
governmental policies that are highlighted within the given area. The songs as highlighted within
the given article are used for uniting the youth and other members within the society in protest
against the various issues that have been highlighted within the given society at large. The music
industry is further observed to be dealing in the overall areas for the development of the cultural
factors within the given territorial boundaries. The article further highlights that there might be a
greater number of factors that are affected through the music. The music as well as the songs
might be interpreted in a number of ways on the basis of the person who has been interpreting
the song. This in turn creates the conditions wherein the hearer might interpret a varied number
of messages from the entire song that is being popularized as a medium of protest.
Jolaosho, O., 2019. Singing Politics: Freedom Songs and Collective Protest in Post-
Apartheid South Africa. African Studies Review, 62(2), pp.6-29.

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Jolaosho (2019) in the article entitled “Singing Politics: Freedom Songs and Collective
Protest in Post-Apartheid South Africa” highlights the various factors that have been influencing
the protests that are taking place within the African territories. The article helps in the overall
development of the issues that are highlighted within the given territorial boundaries of Africa.
The article highlighted the fact that the songs tend to have a great influence on the issues that are
faced by the region in terms of the political uprising within the concerned area. The article states
that the majority of the songs that are used for the freedom movements tend to have a greater
influence on the matters that related to the overall development of the political scenario within
the given area. The implementation of the various factors like the rhythm and the reception of the
various freedom songs tend to have a distinctive feature that helps in the overall development of
the protests among the concerned countrymen. The article highlights that the instant
compositions and the adaptations of the various songs help in unification of the people who have
been protesting against a given agenda that is being followed within the given area. The songs
that are selected for the overall development of the issues that are constructed in an aesthetic
manner so as to help in the overall development of the protest movements within the given area.
The implementation of the music as the medium of the protests within the given political
territories are observed to have a perceptible impact on the protestors with the help of the issues
that are highlighted due to the uses of repetitive variations and other such factors within the
composition.
Mathew, M.A., 2018. The Manifestation of Slave Trauma in Lyrics: A Reading of Select
Slave Songs. International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, 6(3),
pp.27-33.