Listening to Race

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

In this course, we will tackle the following questions: How do we listen to race? What methods, theories, and technologies can help us amplify or clarify the co-constitutions of race, gender, and sound? As critical listeners, how do our own identities and abilities shape our listening practices and values? We will approach these questions with cross-disciplinary analysis surveying the fields of feminist thought, media studies, musicology, critical race theory, performance studies, popular music, disability studies, and experimental aesthetics to understand sound and musical cultures as significant matters in the histories of race, colonialism, gender, and sexuality.