The sonic gaze : jazz, Whiteness, and racialized listening /

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Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface : a note on jazz pedagogy -- Aural orientations -- The jazz problem : patterns of White bad faith listening -- Listening exercises for chapter 2 : the jazz problem -- Listening to difference : Creole critiques of White listening -- Listening exercises for Chapter 3 : listening to difference -- The ears of a guilty people : Africana critiques of White listening -- Listening exercises for Chapter 4 : the ears of a guilty people -- Afterword : say their names : Breonna Taylor, George Floyd."This book argues that whiteness is not only a visual orientation; it is a way of hearing. Inspired by formulations of 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, this book introduces students to the notion of the white sonic gaze"--