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.
"List of Illustrations Contributors Introduction to Sonic Identity at the Margins Joanna K. Love, University of Richmond, USA, and Jessie Fillerup, University of Richmond, USA Part I: Hearing Race and Place 1. Mapping Sonic and Affective Geographies in Richmond Virginia Andrew McGraw, University of Richmond, USA 2. Musical Indianism: Reassessing the Archive Victoria Rose Clark (Nanticoke), Independent Scholar, USA 3. Reconsidering ""Rhythm"" as Cultural Marker in Black String Band Music Landon Bain, Independent Scholar, USA 4. “The Year of Jubilee is Come”: Metatextual Resonance in Antislavery Hymn Parodies Erin Fulton, Independent Scholar, USA 5. Accidental Alterity in Messiaen’s Quatre études de rythme David Wolfson, Hunter College, USA Part II: Sounding “Otherness” in Contemporary Media 6. Decolonizing Game Audio and Approaching Sound in Digital Storytelling Kate Galloway, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA 7. Finding Home in the Unknown: Sounding Self-Determination from the Streets to the Void Andrew J. Kluth, Case Western Reserve University, USA 8. Colonial Encounters, Alien Languages, and the Exotic Music of Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival Paige Zalman, Independent Scholar, USA 9. Decolonizing Disability: “Muteness,” Music, and Eugenics in Screen Representation James Deaville, Carleton University, Ontario, Canada 10. Hearing Borderline Personality Disorder in Crazy Ex- Girlfriend Jessie Fillerup, University of Richmond, USA, and Joanna K. Love, University of Richmond, USA Part III: Performing Identity 11. Shirish Korde on Intercultural Composition Christopher Chandler, Union College, USA 12. Sonic Dismantling, Appropriation, and Confederate Monuments David Kirkland Garner, University of South Carolina, USA 13. The Lanna Dream: Reflections of Constructed Identities Waewdao Sirisook, Chiang Mai University, Thailand, and Abbas Rasul, Independent Scholar, Chiang Mai, Thailand 14. American Blackness in Berlin: Race and Nationality in Contemporary Jazz Performance Bertram D. Ashe, University of Richmond, USA 15. Remaking Traditions and Rehearing the Self: A Conversation with Reena Esmail Christopher Chandler, Union College, USA Acknowledgments Index"
Jessie Fillerup is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Richmond and author of Magician of Sound: Ravel and the Aesthetics of Illusion (2021). She has written on French music, opera, musical temporality, and magic for publications such as Music & Letters, Cambridge Opera Journal, 19th-Century Music, and Music Theory Online. Her work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Denmark. Joanna K. Love is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Richmond and the Book Reviews Editor for the Journal of the Society for American Music (JSAM). She has written extensively on music in advertising and multimedia and her work has appeared in volumes for Oxford University Press and Routledge, and journals including JSAM and Music and Politics. Her 2019 book, Soda Goes Pop: Pepsi-Cola Advertising and Popular Music, was supported by an AAUW fellowship.
Reviews for Sonic Identity at the Margins
Bringing together a diverse range of authors and methodologies, this timely, engaging, and deeply humane volume offers important new perspectives on how cultural identities-particularly the identities of marginalized communities-intersect with the past and present of musical expression. A major contribution not just to music studies, but to the arts and humanities as a whole. * William Gibbons, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Musicology, Texas Christian University, USA *
