Sonic Identity at the Margins

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Sonic Identity at the Margins convenes the interdisciplinary work of 17 academics, composers, and performers to examine sonic identity from the 19th century to the present. Recognizing the myriad aspects of identity formation, the authors in this volume adopt methodological approaches that range from personal accounts and embodied expression to archival research and hermeneutic interpretation. They examine real and imagined spaces—from video games and monument sites to films and depictions of outer space—by focusing on sonic creation, performance, and reception. Drawing broadly from artistic and performance disciplines, the authors reimagine the roles played by music and sound in constructing notions of identity in a broad array of musical experiences, from anti-slavery songsters to Indigenous tunes and soundscapes, noise and multimedia to popular music and symphonic works. Exploring relationships between sound and various markers of identity—including race, gender, ability, and nationality—the authors explore challenging, timely topics, including the legacies of slavery, indigeneity, immigration, and colonial expansion. In heeding recent calls to decolonize music studies and confront its hegemonic methods, the authors interrogate privileged perspectives embedded in creating, performing, and listening to sound, as well as the approaches used to analyze these experiences. Cover Contents List of Illustrations Contributors Introduction to Sonic Identity at the Margins Joanna K. Love and Jessie Fillerup Part 1 Hearing Race and Place 1 Mapping Sonic and Affective Geographies in Richmond, Virginia Andrew McGraw 2 Musical Indianism: Reassessing the Archive Victoria Rose Clark (Nanticoke) 3 Reconsidering “Rhythm” as a Cultural Marker in Black String Band Music Landon Bain 4 “The Year of Jubilee Is Come”: Metatextual Resonance in Antislavery Hymn Parodies Erin Fulton 5 Accidental Alterity in Messiaen’s Quatre études de rythme David Wolfson Part 2 Sounding “Otherness” in Contemporary Media 6 Decolonizing Game Audio and Approaching Sound in Digital Storytelling Kate Galloway 7 Finding Home in the Unknown: Sounding Self-Determination from the Streets to the Void Andrew J. Kluth 8 Colonial Encounters, Alien Languages, and the Exotic Music of Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival Paige Zalman 9 Decolonizing Disability: “Muteness,” Music, and Eugenics in Screen Representation James Deaville 10 Hearing Borderline Personality Disorder in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Joanna K. Love and Jessie Fillerup Part 3 Performing Identity 11 Shirish Korde on Intercultural Composition Christopher Chandler 12 Sonic Dismantling, Appropriation, and Confederate Monuments David Kirkland Garner 13 The Lanna Dream: Reflections of Constructed Identities Waewdao Sirisook and Abbas Rasul 14 American Blackness in Berlin: Race and Nationality in Contemporary Jazz Performance Bertram D. Ashe 15 Remaking Traditions and Rehearing the Self: A Conversation with Reena Esmail Christopher Chandler Acknowledgments Index