Intersectional Listening
Gentrification and Black Sonic Life in Washington, DC

By (author) Allie Martin

ISBN13: 9780197671573

Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 31/03/2025

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Gentrification is often considered through a visual lens, where development, progress, and neighborhood change are observed. But what does gentrification sound like? In Intersectional Listening, author Allie Martin engages this question in Washington, DC, asking how Black people experience gentrification as a sonic, racialized process. Drawing from music, interviews, soundscape recordings, and more, Martin argues that gentrification ultimately serves to silence some voices and amplify others. Martin employs a combination of methodologies from ethnomusicology, Black Studies, geography, and digital humanities to make audible the ways in which gentrification disrupts and disturbs community. Throughout, she centers Black feminist listening practices, thinking through digital modes of listening and imagining emancipatory soundscapes. Intersectional Listening benefits from an innovative combination of sources, from interviews and soundwalks to passive acoustic recording and machine learning. Martin shares compelling stories of music and sound in the nation's capital, and in doing so shifts conversations about how we listen to Black life. By foregrounding how processes of gentrification systematically seek to devalue, mishear, and ultimately silence Black possibility, Intersectional Listening posits how we can challenge ourselves to refute the consistent mishearing of Black people in Washington, DC and beyond.
Acknowledgements Introduction: Listening Intersectionally To The Chocolate City Chapter 1. "I'm On My Way To Atlanta" Interlude: Notes On Soundwalking As Black Feminist Method Chapter 2. Smooth Jazz And Static Chapter 3. 7th And Florida Chapter 4. Life, Death, And Legacy In Go-Go Music Interlude: Sounds Of The City Chapter 5. "Plainly Audible" Coda: Freedom Sounds In The Nation's Capital Bibliography
  • Western "classical" music
  • Non-Western music: traditional & "classical"
  • Professional & Vocational
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