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Join us as Professor Martin explores the relationships between race, sound, and gentrification in the nation’s capital. Gentrification is often considered through a visual lens, where development, progress, and neighborhood change are seen. But what does gentrification sound like? At its heart, this book is an ethnography about what gentrification sounds like in Washington, DC, specifically how Black people throughout the city are experiencing gentrification as a sonic, racialized process. In telling these stories of music and sound in the nation’s capital, the book shifts conversations about how we listen to Black life: by centering Black feminist listening practices, by thinking through digital modes of listening, and by imagining emancipatory soundscapes.