Allie Martin
Assistant Professor of Music, Dartmouth College
Fellow 2026–27
- Current Project
- Sampling for Black Life
- Project Discipline
- Music History and Musicology
- Fellowship Title
- Kent R. Mullikin Fellowship
About Fellow
Allie Martin is an ethnomusicologist and artist from Prince George’s County, Maryland. She is an assistant professor at Dartmouth College in the Music Department and the Cluster for Digital Humanities and Social Engagement. Her work is attuned to questions of race, sound, and power. Her first book,Intersectional Listening: Gentrification and Black Sonic Life in Washington, DC, explores the relationships between race, sound, and gentrification in the nation’s capital. Martin is the director of the Black Sound Lab, a research environment dedicated to amplifying Black life and decriminalizing Black sound through digital practice.
Selected Publications
- Martin, Allie. Intersectional Listening: Gentrification and Black Sonic Life in Washington, D.C. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025.
- Martin, Allie. “Sound, Gentrification, and Ephethereal Justice.” Ethnomusicology 68, no. 3 (2024): 482–500.
- Martin, Allie. “The City is the Club is the City: Sonic Vignettes of a Gentrifying City.” Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture 5, no. 2 (2024): 86–96.
- Martin, Allie. “Plainly Audible: Listening Intersectionally to the Amplified Noise Act in Washington, D.C.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 33, no. 4 (2021): 104–25.