In the spirit of building an expansive citational practice that goes beyond the academy, I want to recognize the following individuals, organizations, and projects that inspire me and influence my work.
All photos have links to learn more.
Thank you to everyone listed here, and so many others, for contributing to a greater understanding of the relationship between sound, place, and power — more nuanced, more precise, more collective.
Albina Music Trust (community archive)
Minidoka Swing Band (remembering music from Japanese incarceration)
Vanport Mosaic (memory activism)
The Rhapsody Project (music, heritage, and antiracism)
Dr. Allie Martin (sonic gentrification)
Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center (inclusive histories)
Rhiannon Giddens (Black banjo and Black string band reclamation)
Albina Music Trust (documenting North Portland’s musical culture and Black history)
No-No Boy Project (multimedia music and history)
Confluence Project & Voices of the River publication (Indigenous voices on Columbia River history, living cultures, and ecology)
WNYC Podcast “Dolly Parton’s America” (popular discourse on music/politics)
OPB podcast “Starting A Riot” (riot grrrl history, Pacific Northwest)
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (nonprofit record label)
She Shreds (inclusive and accessible guitar culture)