The Rose of the Revolution: Songs of Dissent during the Citizenship Amendment Act Protests

<p>The paper tries to discuss the role of songs in the India-wide<br>protest movement against the Citizenship Amendment Act<br>(CAA) in 2019-2020. The paper tries to analyze how different<br>kinds of songs were used by the protesters from different<br>geographical and cultural arenas to articulate their dissent<br>against governmental despotism, and how some of these<br>songs, in a political context, underwent the processes of<br>recontextualization and reinterpretation. Moreover, it also<br>traces the advent of indigenous songs of dissent and tries to<br>answer whether these songs could be regarded as examples of<br>sonic literature, which tries to bridge the gulf between<br>linguistic concreteness and musical abstraction.</p>