TEDxUSC - Josh Kun - Music As Social Action

Professor, author, and music critic Josh Kun is looking at music as a form of social action, particularly for the world's 213 million migrants alienated by militarized borders. To him, the U.S.-Mexico border is not just a fence or a line on a map, but a sonic structure flooded with messages in music. From sound artists who release the border fences' acoustic properties to music artists writing songs about migrating to a better world, Kun seeks to explain how music and borders are an opportunity for transnational messaging.

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