![]() We listen to the music without video to start, to remove visual distraction. Listening to the score to There, There strikes a profound chord in the students I teach, giving them another dimension through which to read history. Orange reminds us on these pages that our American origin story has a soundtrack that defies white-washing. As Orange bitingly demonstrates in the prologue, American colonialism has white-washed Native American history then reconstructed to a falsely romantic – and dead – past. The title There, There comes both from the Radiohead song of the same name and Oakland native Gertrude Stein. The soundtrack to Tommy Orange’s novel There, There unleashes the music of three different generations and diverse genres to score the lives and histories of his characters within the urban soundscape of Oakland, California. She has a PhD in historical musicology, with a specialization in Women’s Studies, and teaches seminars on the harem, slavery and courtesans.Įvery novel has a soundtrack, whether or not the author creates one consciously. Lisa Nielson is an Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. ![]()
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