Stoever, Jennifer Lynn,

The sonic color line : race and the cultural politics of listening - New York : New York University Press , 2016 . - xvi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Postmillennial pop . - Postmillennial pop. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Sonic Color Line and the Listening Ear -- The Word, the Sound, and the Listening Ear: Listening to the Sonic Color Line in Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative and Harriet Jacobs's 1861 Incidents -- Performing the Sonic Color Line in the Antebellum North: The Swedish Nightingale and the Black Swan -- Preserving "Quare Sounds, " Conserving the "Dark Past": The Jubilee Singers and Charles Chesnutt Reconstruct the Sonic Color Line -- "A Voice to Match All That": Lead Belly, Richard Wright, and Lynching's Soundtrack -- Broadcasting Race: Lena Horne, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Ann Petry.

9781479890439 9781479889341

2016018963


Music and race--History.--United States
African Americans--Music--History and criticism--American Studies

ML3917.U6 / S79 2016

305.800

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