Sonic identity at the margins

313 Pages·2022·3.835 MB·English

by  Joanna K. Love (editor), Jessie Fillerup (editor)

Sonic Identity at the Margins
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Sonic Identity at the Margins
Edited by
Jessie Fillerup and Joanna K. Love
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For the Department of Music at the University of Richmond
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Contributors xii
Introduction to Sonic Identity at the Margins
Joanna K. Love and Jessie Fillerup 1
Part 1 Hearing Race and Place
1 Mapping Sonic and Affective Geographies in Richmond, Virginia
Andrew McGraw 19
2 Musical Indianism: Reassessing the Archive
Victoria Rose Clark (Nanticoke) 43
3 Reconsidering “Rhythm” as a Cultural Marker in
Black String Band Music Landon Bain 61
4 “The Year of Jubilee Is Come”: Metatextual Resonance in Antislavery
Hymn Parodies Erin Fulton 75
5 Accidental Alterity in Messiaen’s Quatre études de rythme
David Wolfson 97
Part 2 Sounding “Otherness” in Contemporary Media
6 Decolonizing Game Audio and Approaching Sound in
Digital Storytelling Kate Galloway 113
7 Finding Home in the Unknown: Sounding Self-Determination
from the Streets to the Void Andrew J. Kluth 135
8 Colonial Encounters, Alien Languages, and the Exotic
Music of Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival Paige Zalman 151
9 Decolonizing Disability: “Muteness,” Music, and Eugenics in Screen
Representation James Deaville 163
10 Hearing Borderline Personality Disorder in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Joanna K. Love and Jessie Fillerup 185
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Part 3 Performing Identity
11 Shirish Korde on Intercultural Composition
Christopher Chandler 205
12 Sonic Dismantling, Appropriation, and Confederate Monuments
David Kirkland Garner 219
13 The Lanna Dream: Reflections of Constructed Identities
Waewdao Sirisook and Abbas Rasul 235
14 American Blackness in Berlin: Race and Nationality in
Contemporary Jazz Performance Bertram D. Ashe 247
15 Remaking Traditions and Rehearing the Self:
A Conversation with Reena Esmail Christopher Chandler 263
Acknowledgments 281
Index 283
Illustrations
Figures
1.1 AudibleRVA map with several layers displayed. Gray dots = noise
complaints; black stars = active venues; gray stars = defunct venues;
black pins = ethnographic interviews; black squares = music
infrastructure (music schools, stores, studios) 20
1.2 Black population density/noise complaints 2007–2019. Black
population density indicated by shading 23
1.3a–d Typical noise complaint patterns before and after passage of
restrictive noise ordinance. (a) Top left: June–July 2010, “scatter
plot” pattern. (b) Top right: November–December 2011, complaints
registered along Chamberlayne Avenue. (c) Bottom left. August–
September 2012, complaints registered along Jefferson Davis
Highway. (d) Bottom right. May–June 2013, complaints bordering
and within the Fan (center of map) 24
1.4a–b Richmond HOLC maps (Nelson et al. 2020). Top: original
HOLC map from the late 1930s. Bottom: HOLC map with poverty
data from the 2000s 29
1.5 HOLC map with typical soundscape spectrograms, June 2019 30
1.6 Black population density/venues/events from AudibleRVA
Calendar, as heatmap 33
1.7 AudibleRVA calendar of events by genre. October 2018–October
2019 34
6.1 Never Alone gameplay stills. Top: Nuna and Fox maneuver across
ice floes. Bottom: Nuna and Fox work together to defeat the Polar
Bear in his cave 118
6.2 Invaders gameplay stills 124
6.3 Honour Water gameplay stills. Top: the song “Gizaagi’igonan
Gimaamaanan Aki.” Bottom: the song “Miigwech Nibi” 127
7.1 Clipping. From left to right: Jonathan Snipes, William Hutson, and
Daveed Diggs. Photo credit: Suzy Poling 138