RT Book, Section
A1 Bollas, Angelos
A1 Villanueva, Alicia Castillo
T1 Sounding the Alarm: The Role of Music in Shaping Public Discourse on Femicides in Greece
T2 Voices of Resistance: Music, Femicide, and Gender Justice in Spain and Greece
A2 Bollas, Angelos
A2 Villanueva, Alicia Castillo
YR 2026
DO 10.1108/978-1-83708-456-220261003
SP 0
SN 978-1-83708-457-9
PB Emerald Publishing Limited
AB This chapter examines the role of music in shaping public discourse on femicide in contemporary Greece. Centring on the murders of Eleni Topaloudi (2018) and Caroline Crouch (2021), it argues that, in the absence of robust legal recognition of femicide, popular music has become a vital medium through which grief, anger and solidarity are expressed and politicised. Drawing on case studies such as ‘Όλες απαντάμε αν αγγίξεις μία” [‘We All Respond if You Touch One’] by Vivir Quitana and the Open Orchestra, Foivos Delivorias’s ‘Ελένη Τοπαλούδη’ [‘Eleni Topaloudi’], ‘Καμία Μόνη’ [‘No One Alone’] by Spyros Grammenos and Nefeli Fasouli, ‘Χιονάτη’ [‘Snow White’] by Thanos Papageorgiou and Kostis Amiridis and ‘Τακούνια για Καρφιά’ [‘Heels for Nails’] by Orestis Dandtos, this chapter explores how artists transform mourning into mobilisation and the silence of subaltern voices into sound. Using frameworks from feminist theory, affect studies and sound studies, including the work of Sara Ahmed, Judith Butler, Zizi Papacharissi and Brandon LaBelle, this chapter conceptualises music as a form of acoustic citizenship, that is, a practice through which citizens listen, grieve and act together. Ultimately, this chapter highlights how feminist music in Greece reclaims the cultural field as a site of resistance, rewriting silence into resonance and turning the demand for justice into a collective act of listening.
RD 4/10/2026
UL https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83708-456-220261003