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Podcast: New Books in Popular Culture
Episode: Ears Racing
Description: This episode, we talk with Jennifer Lynn Stoeverâeditor of the influential sound studies blog Sounding Out!âabout her new book, The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening (NYU Press, 2016). We tend to think of race and racism as visual phenomena, but Stoever challenges white listeners to examine how racism can infect our ears, altering the sound of the world and other people. We discuss the history of American prejudicial listening since slavery and learn how African American writers and musicians have pushed back against this invisible âsonic color line.âWorks discussed include Richard Wrigh...