Jessie Cox’s highly original new book, Sounds of Black Switzerland: Blackness, Music, and Unthought Voices (Duke University Press, 2025) is the fourth book published this year that has been indexed by Southwest Humanities (and the 46th Duke University Press title we have indexed). Sounds of Black Switzerland engages with a range of sonic material, including that of Swiss Nigerian Charles Uzor’s compositions for George Floyd, recent work by Black Swiss musicians DJ Maïté Chénière, clarinetist Jérémie Jolo, and rapper Nativ, as well as the author’s own musical endeavors to examine antiblackness in Switzerland and to develop “a practice of listening beyond what can be directly heard to explore the radical potential of Black thought and experience in a nation often claimed to be race-free.” Cox thereby interrogates the connections between Blackness and issues of citizenship, immigration, belonging, kinship and gender and theorizes “new ways of practicing scholarly study and general ways of relating to others and the world.” Sounds of Black Switzerland: Blackness, Music, and Unthought Voices will be available for purchase on February 11, 2025. Please see the publisher’s website here for more information