The Sonic Color Line : Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening.
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- computer
- online resource
- 9781479899081
- ML3917.U6.S764 2016
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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