Streets, Sounds and Identity in Interwar Harlem

Corbould, Clare

doi:10.1353/jsh.2007.0091

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“…It addressed sides of life in Harlem and related locations that the Talented Tenth and their allies would prefer not to discuss. Consistent with how Corbould (2007) described the those domains of life in Harlem, Fire was filled with noise.…”

Section: Fire-y Linguistic Upliftmentioning

confidence: 83%

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Circulations, Accumulations, and Superdiversity

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2019

Language Before Stonewall

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In his discussion of queer Maghrebi French, Provencher focuses attention on the "flexible language" of sexuality (2017: 27-32) associated with same-sex desiring speakers of Maghrebi French. As Provencher shows, the connections between language and sexuality in these settings are best described as an accumulation of linguistic details drawn from Maghrebi Berber and Arabic, continental French, along with British and American English. That work of accumulation, or "confluence of scripts" as Provencher also terms it (2018: 30), provides Maghrebi French speakers with various ways to express their "sexual selfhood, freedom, belonging and resilience" and to engage their "continued marginalization and exclusion" from family, French society, and French gay community (Provencher 2017: 30). 1 The examples reviewed in Chapter 4 have suggested that language use before Stonewall can also be described as a confluence of scripts, and that the language learning was shaped by a process of flexible accumulation. But the confluence of scripts in these examples was not always a product of inter-language accumulation in those cases, however.

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Section: Fire-y Linguistic Upliftmentioning

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“…Any discussion of the ideologies shaping language contact in Harlem must begin with Corbould's (2007) remarks about Harlem as a site of noise. During the first years of the twentieth century, Harlem was a loud, boisterous, and often raucous location, and so were its individual sites.…”

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“…The education campaign that the NAC promoted across NYC was initiated was meant for those whose behavior was perceived as problematic, especially the African-Americans in Harlem. According to Clare Corbould (2007), Harlem's street life was presented in a very noisy way by the white media of NYC in the first half of the 20th century. She argues that:…”

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Media Distortions

Carmi¹

2020

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Media Distortions is about the power behind the production of deviant media categories. It shows the politics behind categories we take for granted such as spam and noise, and what it means to our broader understanding of, and engagement with media. The book synthesizes media theory, sound studies, science and technology studies (STS), feminist technoscience, and software studies into a new composition to explore media power. Media Distortions argues that using sound as a conceptual framework is more useful due to its ability to cross boundaries and strategically move between multiple spaces-which is essential for multi-layered mediated spaces. Drawing on repositories of legal, technical and archival sources, the book amplifi es three stories about the construction and negotiation of the 'deviant' in media. The book starts in the early 20th century with Bell Telephone's production of noise, tuning into the training of their telephone operators and their involvement with the Noise Abatement Commission in New York City. The next story jumps several decades to the early 2000s focusing on web metric standardization in the European Union and shows how the digital advertising industry constructed web-cookies as legitimate communication while making spam illegal. The fi nal story focuses on the recent decade and the way Facebook fi lters out antisocial behaviors to engineer a sociality that produces more value. These stories show how deviant categories re-draw boundaries between human and non-human, public and private spaces, and importantly, social and antisocial.

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“…18 While such activity could follow more traditional lines, it often intersected with the new types of commercial leisure and entertainment audible everywhere from the chatting of multinational audiences in the era's nickelodeons to the lively streetscapes of Harlem. 19 Over time, the popularity and profitability of such spaces helped remake the outlines of American public culture, brokering a complex auditory compromise between progressive expectations and commodified pleasure.…”

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Histories with Sound: Using Noise and Music to Teach (and Research) the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Backer

2023

J. gilded age prog. era

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In recent years, the history of sound has developed into a rich body of interdisciplinary scholarship. This article explores the benefits of considering sonic evidence alongside a host of other material; teaching and writing histories with—rather than of—sound. In the classroom, this kind of “history with sound” is particularly useful for its ability to cut across lines of scholarly inquiry. This makes sound an especially potent resource when teaching the history of the United States during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. During these years, American society underwent a many-sided process of development difficult to adequately narrativize. The study of sound, with its ability to link numerous trends and dynamics within densely layered events, can help address this issue. Providing insight into the practices and problems of everyday life, such sonic history can reveal the interplay of change and continuity that defined the social experience of the turn-of-the-century United States. Focused on sound in New York, this article provides an overview of the topic’s historiography before examining a series of distinct case studies for classroom use.

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Streets, Sounds and Identity in Interwar Harlem

Cited by 17 publications

References 71 publications

Circulations, Accumulations, and Superdiversity

Circulations, Accumulations, and Superdiversity

Media Distortions

Histories with Sound: Using Noise and Music to Teach (and Research) the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

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