The Sonic Color Line : Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (349 pages)
- Postmillennial Pop Series ; v.17 .
- Postmillennial Pop Series .
Cover -- THE SONIC COLOR LINE -- Title -- 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 Soundtrack -- 5. Broadcasting Race: Lena Horne, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Ann Petry -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.
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