ABSTRACT
This chapter examines three central ways that sound manifests in contemporary schooling: sound policing, deafness as sonic deficit, and kicking ass through band. What these three aspects of the sonic have in common is their materiality, the ways in which sound physically affects ecologies and relations as well as their associated ideas. A brief section on the silences around Indigenous education and the histories of Indian boarding schools in the United States veers slightly into more metaphorical absences and silencing. However, lack of attention to this facet of US curricular patterns and practices in some fashion on a chapter about othering, sound, and silencing would contribute to rather than interrupt these injustices. It focuses on questions of deafness and the political nature of sociocultural debate, Joseph Michael Valente, Benjamin Bahan, and H-Dirksen L. Bauman wonder what happens "when a member of a minority culture violates the sensory norms of a dominant culture?".
