T Storm Heter is professor of philosophy at East Stroudsburg University, where he is also director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for Intercultural Studies, and co-director of the Race Relations Program. He is the former president of the Sartre Society and the editor the Sartre Studies International journal. He co-edits, with LaRose T. Parris and Devin Zane Shaw, the 'Living Existentialism' book series. He is a jazz musician and enthusiast and teaches a range of music and philosophy courses, including Philosophy and Hip Hop.

Introduction: Jazz Pedagogy

Chapter One: Sonic Orientations
Hearing Race Through Closed Ears
Whiteness is a Sonic Orientation
Existential Phenomenology
Visualism
Studying Sound
The Sonic Gaze
Creolizing Listening
A Woman Speaks

Chapter Two: The Jazz Problem: Patterns of White Bad-Faith
How Does It Feel To Be a White Sonic Problem?
White Minstrel Listening
White Savior Listening
White Hipster Listening
White Revivalist Listening
White Colorblind Listening
Upgraded White Colorblind Listening
Ecstatic Listening
White Existentialism and The White Problem

Listening Exercises for Chapter 2: The Jazz Problem: Patterns of White Bad Faith Listening

Chapter Three: Listening to Difference: Creole Critiques of White Listening
The Creolizing Phenomenology of Sidney Bechet
White Revivalist Listening: Nostalgia, Authenticity, and Discovery
Plantation Listening: Geography and Gender
Listening in the Big House
White Women's Listening
The Creolizing Jazz of Edward "Kid" Ory
Jazz is a Verb: The Original Creole Band
Francophone Newspapers in New Orleans
The Creolizing Listening of Édouard Glissant

Listening Exercises for Chapter 3: Listening to Difference: Music and Creole Phenomenology

Chapter Four: The Ears of a Guilty People: Africana Critiques of White Listening
The Sonic Gaze in Black Existential Thought
W. E. B. Du Bois
Frantz Fanon
Black Existential Feminist Critiques of White Listening
bell hooks
Harlem Renaissance Critiques of White Listening
Alain Locke
Zora Neale Hurston
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Salem Tutt Whitney: A Voice from Black Vaudeville

Listening List to Accompany Ch. 4: The Ears of a Guilty People: Africana Critiques of White Listening

Afterword: Say Their Names