Seeking to extend discussions of 9/11 music beyond the acts typically associated with the September 11th attacks this collection interrogates the politics of a variety of post-9/11 music scenes.

Contributors add an aural dimension to what has been a visual conceptualization of this important moment in US history by articulating the role that lesser-known contemporary musicians have played or have refused to play in constructing a politics of protest in direct response to the trauma inflicted that day.