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2021; Wiley; Volume: 33; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/jpms.2021.33.4.64

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Christina Zanfagna, Alex Werth,

Place Attachment and Urban Studies

Introduction| December 01 2021 Introduction: Soundscapes of American Gentrification Christina Zanfagna, Christina Zanfagna Santa Clara University Email: czanfagna@scu.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Alex Werth Alex Werth Geographer and DJ Email: awerth@berkeley.edu Alex Werth is a geographer, writer, and DJ based in Berkeley, CA. As a doctoral student in geography at UC Berkeley, he researched the longstanding role of popular music and dance in campaigns to empower, but also police, Oakland's working-class communities of color. He has worked to advance these concerns beyond academia as a Public Imagination Fellow at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, research analyst for the City of Oakland's cultural plan, and as cultural critic for Africa Is a Country, FIELD, Sounding Out!, and more. He currently works at a housing justice organization, with a focus on stopping pandemic evictions in the East Bay. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Popular Music Studies (2021) 33 (4): 64–77. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2021.33.4.64 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Christina Zanfagna, Alex Werth; Introduction: Soundscapes of American Gentrification. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 December 2021; 33 (4): 64–77. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2021.33.4.64 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search "This ain't the same place it was / different space and buzz."-Gift of Gab, "The Gentrification Song" (2018)1 America is abuzz with gentrification. The archives of media, academia, and Hollywood2 are now replete with images, ranging from triumphant to melancholic, of urban change. Indeed, the symbology of gentrification has become iconic. From café seating on sanitized sidewalks to roving security "ambassadors," from alien architectural styles to a rushed coat of paint ("flipper gray" is currently in vogue3), gentrification appears to be scrawled across the visual landscape of American cities. It thus seems to be inextricable from an optical epistemology, a way of knowing by seeing. According to this common sense, if it looks like gentrification, then it probably is (fig. 1). In this special issue, we offer a different take, starting with the lyrics from Gift of Gab, the recently deceased stalwart of... You do not currently have access to this content.