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currentmusicology-5367	Cheng, William	Black Noise, White Ears: Resilience, Rap, and the Killing of Jordan Davis	2018	75	.pdf	application/pdf	33443	2448	72	(“Michael Dunn Trial—Cory Strolla—Press Conference,” ~11:00, emphasis added)81 Let’s “keep it clean,” people—meaning, let’s keep the taint of blackness at bay.82 Because it’s a “subculture thug issue” that “doesn’t go to race”—mean- ing, anyone (black or white) can be a thug, and it’s the thug behavior (not the color of thugs) that irked Michael Dunn. Or take bebop, which poet Amiri Baraka exalted for its “willfully harsh, anti-assimila- tionist sound” (2002, 181, emphasis in original) and which jazz scholar Scott DeVeaux characterized as “a rebellion by black musicians against a white-controlled capitalist hegemony” (1997, 4).56 When framed within narratives of overcoming, black music is seemingly never allowed just to be, but must always formidably, laboriously be against.	cache/currentmusicology-5367.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-5367.txt