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OverviewA 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. Through case studies and musical examples from the history of American jazz, the book builds a phenomenological archive to demonstrate the bad habits of ‘white listening’, drawing from black journalism, the autobiographies of Creole musicians, and the lyrics and sonic content of early jazz music emerging from New Orleans. Studying white listening orientations on the plantation, in vaudeville minstrel shows, and in cabarets, the book portrays six types of bad faith white listeners, including the white minstrel listener, the white savior listener, white hipster listener, and the white colorblind listener. Connecting critical race studies, music studies, philosophy of race and existentialism, this book is for students to learn how to critique the phenomenology of whiteness and practice decolonial listening. Full Product DetailsAuthor: T Storm Heter, East Stroudsburg UniversiPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.80cm Weight: 0.449kg ISBN: 9781538162613ISBN 10: 153816261 Pages: 206 Publication Date: 22 March 2022 Recommended Age: From 18 to 22 years Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Jazz Pedagogy Chapter One: Sonic Orientations Hearing Race Through Closed Ears Whiteness is a Sonic Orientation Existential Phenomenology Visualism Studying Sound The Sonic Gaze Creolizing Listening A Woman Speaks Chapter Two: The Jazz Problem: Patterns of White Bad-Faith How Does It Feel To Be a White Sonic Problem? White Minstrel Listening White Savior Listening White Hipster Listening White Revivalist Listening White Colorblind Listening Upgraded White Colorblind Listening Ecstatic Listening White Existentialism and The White Problem Listening Exercises for Chapter 2: The Jazz Problem: Patterns of White Bad Faith Listening Chapter Three: Listening to Difference: Creole Critiques of White Listening The Creolizing Phenomenology of Sidney Bechet White Revivalist Listening: Nostalgia, Authenticity, and Discovery Plantation Listening: Geography and Gender Listening in the Big House White Women’s Listening The Creolizing Jazz of Edward “Kid” Ory Jazz is a Verb: The Original Creole Band Francophone Newspapers in New Orleans The Creolizing Listening of Édouard Glissant Listening Exercises for Chapter 3: Listening to Difference: Music and Creole Phenomenology Chapter Four: The Ears of a Guilty People: Africana Critiques of White Listening The Sonic Gaze in Black Existential Thought W. E. B. Du Bois Frantz Fanon Black Existential Feminist Critiques of White Listening bell hooks Harlem Renaissance Critiques of White Listening Alain Locke Zora Neale Hurston Alice Dunbar-Nelson Salem Tutt Whitney: A Voice from Black Vaudeville Listening List to Accompany Ch. 4: The Ears of a Guilty People: Africana Critiques of White Listening Afterword: Say Their NamesReviewsThe book continues the project of bringing sound studies in conversation with the critical philosophy of race. Revealing how sound and listening function as racializing tech in the specific kinds of literatures analyzed, The Sonic Gaze makes important contributions to both philosophy and sound studies. The book continues the project of bringing sound studies in conversation with the critical philosophy of race. Revealing how sound and listening function as racializing tech in the specific kinds of literatures analyzed, The Sonic Gaze makes important contributions to both philosophy and sound studies.--Robin James, University of North Carolina Charlotte Author InformationT. Storm Heter is professor of philosophy at East Stroudsburg University, where he is also director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for Intercultural Studies, and co-director of the Race Relations Program. He co-edits, with LaRose T. Parris and Devin Zane Shaw, the ‘Living Existentialism’ book series. He is a jazz musician and enthusiast and teaches a range of music and philosophy courses, including Philosophy and Hip Hop. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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