"Extends our understanding of music across landscapes where belonging and self-determination are enacted daily. Through hybrid ethnographic and participatory research, Liz Przybylski examines the infrastructure of settler media terrains and, more importantly, Indigenous artists' ruptures of it. Her examination of the online-offline divide, practices of distribution, and regulatory environments of broadcast systems are coupled with the power of Indigenous artists who encourage us to go beyond hearing. Through deft close readings of artists' practices, she introduces us to the possibilities of relational listening." - Mishuana Goeman, author of Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations "Excavates Indigenous rap's role in moving us in decolonial directions. Liz Przybylski teases out the confluence of mainstream forces that (re)produce silences while spotlighting artists' refusals, prompting new expressions of audibility. Sonic Sovereignty gifts us with insight into the intimacies of listening and the political possibility of learning to listen differently." - Imani Kai Johnson, author of Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers: The Life of Africanist Aesthetics in Global Hip Hop "The rich ethnography details the rise of sonic self-determination in contemporary culture through radio broadcasting and live concert events. Writing in smooth, poetic prose, Przybylski asserts that understanding music requires an understanding of its cultural space." (CHOICE Connect) "Liz Przybylski's Sonic Sovereignty is a remarkably exciting text that employs a multipronged interdisciplinary methodology that emphasizes how musical expression can act as a powerful decolonial force and is one that I wholly recommend." (CHOICE)
