Reposted by Desiree Fields
A review of Alex Werth’s On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland by Kevin C. Holt now available.
The book “unpacks the intricacies…of Oakland’s history of using policy to restrict Black sound (and by extension Black people) while also noting how Black Oaklanders have used sound as resistance.”
tandfonline.com
On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland
Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2026)