At the beginning of the course, the sound was just a word that was debated by theorists. The theorists all sounded similar until we read Stoever, and she intertwined race and sound. She talks about all of the issues between race and sound; she writes about sounds aren’t always sounds. Stoever calls this rift between races in America, The Sonic Color Line, and she says that “the sonic color line connects sound with race in American culture, showing how listening operates as an organ of racial discernment, categorization, and resistance in the shadow of vision’s alleged cultural dominance.”(Stoever 4) Stoever says that the sonic color line is supposed to maintain the rift and tensions between the races in America. This is one of the many issues that Stoever brought up in the introduction of her book. Even though the topics of Stoever were brought up in class, there are still many questions that still need to be answered, in my personal opinion. The first question that comes to mind is, if there is an issue of racial tension through sound, then what is the solution to the issue? The reason I ask this is that throughout the paper this issue is brought up, but there is no clear solution to this issue.
