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This introductory chapter situates Voices of Resistance: Music, Femicide, and Gender Justice in Southern Europe within a comparative and transnational framework, examining how music in Spain and Greece has become a vital feminist response to femicide and gender-based violence. It outlines the book’s central premise: that in contexts marked by patriarchal legacies, institutional failures and uneven legal protections, music operates as a political practice that names victims, mobilises emotions and creates spaces of civic witnessing. Through theoretical lenses from feminist studies, affect theory, sound studies and transnational feminism, this chapter conceptualises music as both testimony and resistance. It introduces key analytical tools, such as grievability, affective publics, acoustic citizenship and feminist soundscapes, to show how artists and activists transform mourning into collective action. It also positions Spain and Greece as parallel yet distinct case studies shaped by shared Mediterranean histories but divergent institutional trajectories, establishing the comparative foundations for the chapters that follow.