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Jennifer Lynn Stoever - The Sonic Color Line. Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening.  - 9781479890439 - V9781479890439
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The Sonic Color Line. Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening.

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Description for The Sonic Color Line. Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening. Hardback. Series: Postmillennial Pop. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBF; DSBH; JFFJ; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 649.

The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear.
Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see “difference.” At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. Yet, The Sonic Color Line argues that American ideologies of white supremacy are just as dependent on what we hear—voices, musical taste, volume—as they are on skin color or hair texture. Reinforcing compelling new ideas about the relationship between race and sound with meticulous historical research, Jennifer Lynn Stoever helps us to better understand how sound and listening ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Postmillennial Pop
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479890439
SKU
V9781479890439
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Ref
99-1

About Jennifer Lynn Stoever
Jennifer Lynn Stoever is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Sounding Out!: The Sound Studies Blog.

Reviews for The Sonic Color Line. Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening.
The Sonic Color Linewill open up new vistas for thinking about sound, race, and identity, and for understanding how racism is enforced through both sounding and listening. Painstakingly researched and written with verve, Stoevers book will shape the way scholars of American and African American culture and history think about sound, even when our primary texts, like photographs and literary ... Read more

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