Black and Queer, Music on Screen

Abstract

AbstractWhile Black Studies and Queer Studies have offered a range of terms and methods for considering sound, music, and musicality in audiovisual work over the last half century, studies of sound and music in audiovisual media that have attempted to define these latter disciplines have tended to neglect or simply ignore those innovations. The result is a lack of attention and analysis given to key forces and voices at important moments of media transition. This editor's introduction surveys relevant methods and exemplars to demonstrate this problem of disciplinary blind spots and suggests ways that contributions to this special issue help to address and reorient it.