Rough Music

This episode explores the folk custom, Rough Music in relation to public shaming with Bristol based artist Jessica Akerman. Rough Music was and is found in many societies across the globe. In this episode we concentrate mainly on Rough Music in the UK, but look further afield to examine how similar forms of cultural expression are used for the purposes of humiliation and protest, but also celebration and community cohesion.To get a snapshot of Rough Music and public shame in this moment in time, we spoke to a composer and sound artist about his work reviving rough music, a folk music researcher on the history of rough music, an art historian and a musicologist on the role that music and noisemaking plays in protest, shame and social justice. We also spoke to one of the biggest MCs on the battle rap scene in the USA about public shaming as performance and the feeling of being on the wrong side of the crowd, as well as her thoughts on the role of chanting and noise making at the recent Black Lives Matter marches she attended in New York. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.