The sonic color line : race and the cultural politics of listening / Jennifer Lynn Stoever.

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Main Author: Stoever, Jennifer Lynn
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Series:Postmillennial pop.
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Table of Contents:
  • Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Sonic Color Line and the Listening Ear; 1. 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; 2. Performing the Sonic Color Line in the Antebellum North: The Swedish Nightingale and the Black Swan; 3. Preserving "Quare Sounds," Conserving the "Dark Past": The Jubilee Singers and Charles Chesnutt Reconstruct the Sonic Color Line.
  • 4. "A Voice to Match All That": Lead Belly, Richard Wright, and Lynching's Soundtrack5. Broadcasting Race: Lena Horne, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Ann Petry; Afterword; Notes; Index; About the Author.