Black Sound Knowledges: Sonic Approaches to Critical Curriculum Studies
The field of Curriculum Studies has long been a sonic affair. Yet, as has been noted by a number of scholars over the years, implicitly and explicitly by the authors cited in the opening sentence for example, education continues to be theoretically and materially myopic. Not that sounds cannot cause harm as is apparent in sound studies and in our respective and collaborative scholarship. Rather than rearticulate that Curriculum Studies can do, this proposed panel speaks to the depth and breadth of what Curriculum Studies does. More specifically, this panel speaks to questions of what might called critical Black sonorities that run from notions of Martin Luther King’s vibrato to Blacksound, explorations inclusive of what Jennifer Stover, following DuBois, has called “the sonic color line.” We understand our panel to form a collective, omnidirectional, polyphonic whole so that In these ways, our panel not only asks critical questions about curricular Black sonorities but also documents their imbricated significance.
