The Sonic Gaze: Jazz, Whiteness, and Racialized Listening
T Storm Heter East Stroudsburg Universi professor director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for Intercultural Studies, "The Sonic Gaze: Jazz, Whiteness, and Racialized Listening "
English | ISBN: 153816261X | 2022 | 206 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB
English | ISBN: 153816261X | 2022 | 206 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB
A central criticism emerging from Black and Creole thinkers is that mainstream, white dominated, culture, consumes sounds and images of Creole and Black people in music, theater, and the white press, while ignoring critiques of the white consumption of black culture. Ironically, critiques of whiteness are found not only in black literature and media, but also within the blues, jazz, and spirituals that whites listened to, loved, collected, and archived.
This book argues that whiteness is not only a visual orientation; it is a way of hearing. Inspired by formulations of the race and whiteness in the existential writings of Frantz Fanon, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, Lewis Gordon, Angela Davis, bell hooks and Sara Ahmed, T Storm Heter introduces the notion of the white sonic gaze.
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