While the global history of oppression, racism and state violence over the last century is well known, the role that music played in people's lives is less understood. 

Discover how music has shaped resistance movements around the world at this empowering event with Joe Mulhall, author of Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance. 

Joe will discuss how music provided light in the darkest of times – from freedom songs in Ireland to musical resistance in Apartheid South Africa and war-torn Ukraine. 

Meet the writer

Joe Mulhall is a historian, journalist and writer. He is the Director of Research at the UK's largest anti-fascism organisation, HOPE not hate. Joe has published a series of books focusing on far-right extremism including British Fascism After The Holocaust and the co-authored The International Alt-Right: Fascism for the Twentieth Century? and in 2021 he published Drums in the Distance: Journeys in the Global Far Right. He has written for the Guardian, Independent and New Statesman, appears regularly on international broadcast media and has worked on numerous documentaries including Undercover in the Alt-Right.