Black Sound Studies and the Archive

5 credits

Explores questions such as: What do official archives remember and forget? How does Black sound create a repository of history and memory where Black people are the makers and shapers of the story? What listening practices does Black sound elicit? Focuses on Black sound studies, including scholarship on race and the voice, music, soundscapes, audio technology, and listening to imagine alternative ways of creating, being, and belonging. Recommended: any AES, AAS, CHSTU, AFRAM, GWSS, or AIS course. Offered: AWSp.