Catherine Hoad is Senior Lecturer in the School of Music and Creative Media Production at Te Kunenga Ki P¿rehuroa/Massey University, Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Geoff Stahl is Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of Media & Communication, Te Herenga Waka/Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Oli Wilson is Associate Professor in the College of Creative Arts at Te Kunenga Ki P¿rehuroa/ Massey University, Wellington New Zealand., Massey University, Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand.

1. Navigating a neoliberal city: Experimental music making in Aotearoa/New Zealand's 'cultural capital' 2. Sharing languages through contemporary song in the third space: A case study of intercultural collaboration between Indigenous Australian, Polynesian and Melanesian women 3. The Personal and the Political: African Popular Music and Diasporic Heritage in Australia 4. Resisting through music under the neoliberal authoritarian regime: Political themes in Turkish rap songs 5. Rapping about our history, imagining our future! The Great Legacy project in the Korean variety show Infinite Challenge 6. Yes, indeed: Trap and politics 7. Looping alone, together: Music, community, and environmental self-sustainability in Aotearoa/New Zealand 8. 'Half-Moghul, half-Mowgli': The representation of South Asian diasporas in hip hop music 9. Locating labour subjectivities in contemporary popular music texts 10. Beyond hegemony: Siksa and the politics of affect 11. 'A message etched on broken ships': Radical environmentalism and extreme ecometal 12. Good citizenship, telethon and benefit concert: The politics of the achievable 13. Solidarity as strategy. Anti-racism and feminism in the work of Titiyo 14. Nostalgia, anti-victim discourse, and neoliberalism in early 1990s pop: The postfeminist approach of Wilson Phillips 15. White skin, black masks: Die Antwoord, post-apartheid South Africa, and global hip hop studies 16. 'I am the cause to all your problems': Brand New, tattoo coverups, and (im)permanence 17. Neon-nazis: A fascist foray into vaporwave's synaesthetic world Afterword