Sonic Specters: Haunting Reverberations as Otherwise

• In Event: New Directions in the Methodology of Sound

Abstract

This essay amplifies what I call an aural hauntology as a theoretical framework for listening to the relationships of sound, beingness, memory, and power. Centering reverberations and echos, I offer aural hauntology as a unique mode of approaching otherwise possibilities. Privileging the everyday to examine resonances of haunting and producing otherwise that musicians Tunde Olaniran and Jamila Woods encounter, this essay contributes to recent scholarship on sound, social theory, and the afterlives of slavery. I extend Avery Gordon’s work on haunting and Ashon Crawley’s concept “otherwise” to explore new insights into navigating the afterlives of slavery, decolonialism, and possibility frameworks.

Presenter

• Taylor York, University of Maryland