Listening, Belonging, and Memory

Listening, Belonging, and Memory puts connected listening at the center of current debates around whose voices might be listened to, who by, and why. Arguing that listening has to be understood in relation to the self, nation, age, witnessing, and memory, it uses examples from digital storytelling, listening projects, and critical media analysis to highlight connections between listening and power. It centers on voices, stories, and silence, how they interweave, and are activated, maneuvered, reconfigured, and denied. It focuses on the small, microengagements
that crouch within the superstructures of violent border control and the censorious policing of sonic citizenry, identifying cracks in the reshuffling of histories and hierarchies that connected listening affords.

Abigail Gardner is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. She is the author of Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians (2020) and PJ Harvey and Music Video Performance (2015) and co-author of Aging and Popular Music in Europe (2020) and Rock On: Women, Ageing and Popular Music (2012), with Ros Jennings.