The sonic color line : race and the cultural politics of listening
By: Stoever, Jennifer Lynn
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BookSeries: Postmillennial pop: Publisher: New York : New York University Press , 2016Description: xvi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781479890439; 9781479889341.Subject(s): Music and race -- United States -- History | African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism -- American StudiesDDC classification: 305.800
Contents:
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.
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Reserve
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BardBerlinLibrary Reserve Shelf/Librarian's office | 305.800 STO 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | on reserve shelf for Agata Lisiak Fall 2018 |
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.
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