This episode of Sounds of Justice highlights two contexts where music has long voiced struggles for justice and human rights.

From‘rebellious music gatherings’ spearheading the anti-caste movement in India to Palestinian songs of loss and resilience amid the rubble in Gaza, sonic strategies of resistance are helping to reclaim dignity, foster solidarity and spur accountability.

* Rasika Ajotikar

is an ethnomusicologist and singer based in Germany. Her research on anti-caste musical spheres in modern western India examines how music and sound operate as tools of emancipatory politics, underscoring musical labour,resistance, and state repression in the Indian caste society. As a singer, she continues collaborations with anti-caste artists and is also developing projects exploring improvisation, form, and the politics of sound.

* Christina Hazboun

is a writer, artist-researcher and practitioner in the spheres of text, sound, radio and music. Her chapter “Sonic Strategies in The Palestinian Struggle” appears in “BODIES OF SOUND: Becoming a Feminist Ear”. Her publications are scattered in the digital sphere, including Transcript Verlag, Bloomsbury (forthcoming) and she is regularly radio-active on Stegi Radio. She is the UK project manager of Keychange under PRS Foundation, a global movement aiming to increase gender diversity within the music industry.