Martin Munro is Winthrop-King Professor of French at Florida State University. He previously worked in Scotland, Ireland and Trinidad. His latest academic monograph is The Music of the Future: Sound and Vision in the Caribbean (Oxford, 2024).

• IntroductionChapter One: The Atlantic Culture of the Ear: Law, Adornment, Dress, BalanceChapter Two: Sounds of SlaveryChapter Three: From Slavery to ResistanceCoda: Sensing Difference, Measuring RaceBibliography

'Martin Munro complicates the idea that colonial racism functioned primarily through the visual, arguing instead that a battle of the senses played out in Caribbean plantation societies—a battle that pitted a regime of surveillance and punishment shaped by the ocular-centrism of European philosophy against the aural culture of the enslaved and the multiple manifestations of sonic resistance it engendered… Listening to the Caribbean delivers on its promise to sensorially enliven our understanding of Caribbean history… this is an important contribution to the literature on Caribbean history and a strong invitation for others to further engage sound—and the senses more generally—in the study of the region.' - Jérôme Camal, New West Indian Guide

Martin Munro is Winthrop-King Professor of French at Florida State University. He previously worked in Scotland, Ireland and Trinidad. His latest academic monograph is The Music of the Future: Sound and Vision in the Caribbean (Oxford, 2024).

• IntroductionChapter One: The Atlantic Culture of the Ear: Law, Adornment, Dress, BalanceChapter Two: Sounds of SlaveryChapter Three: From Slavery to ResistanceCoda: Sensing Difference, Measuring RaceBibliography

'Martin Munro complicates the idea that colonial racism functioned primarily through the visual, arguing instead that a battle of the senses played out in Caribbean plantation societies—a battle that pitted a regime of surveillance and punishment shaped by the ocular-centrism of European philosophy against the aural culture of the enslaved and the multiple manifestations of sonic resistance it engendered… Listening to the Caribbean delivers on its promise to sensorially enliven our understanding of Caribbean history… this is an important contribution to the literature on Caribbean history and a strong invitation for others to further engage sound—and the senses more generally—in the study of the region.' - Jérôme Camal, New West Indian Guide

Martin Munro is Winthrop-King Professor of French at Florida State University. He previously worked in Scotland, Ireland and Trinidad. His latest academic monograph is The Music of the Future: Sound and Vision in the Caribbean (Oxford, 2024).

• IntroductionChapter One: The Atlantic Culture of the Ear: Law, Adornment, Dress, BalanceChapter Two: Sounds of SlaveryChapter Three: From Slavery to ResistanceCoda: Sensing Difference, Measuring RaceBibliography

'Martin Munro complicates the idea that colonial racism functioned primarily through the visual, arguing instead that a battle of the senses played out in Caribbean plantation societies—a battle that pitted a regime of surveillance and punishment shaped by the ocular-centrism of European philosophy against the aural culture of the enslaved and the multiple manifestations of sonic resistance it engendered… Listening to the Caribbean delivers on its promise to sensorially enliven our understanding of Caribbean history… this is an important contribution to the literature on Caribbean history and a strong invitation for others to further engage sound—and the senses more generally—in the study of the region.' - Jérôme Camal, New West Indian Guide