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The sonic color line : race and the cultural politics of listening
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- Creator
- Jennifer Lynn Stoever
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : New York University Press, [2016]
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- xvi, 331 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781479889341, 147989043X, 1479899089, 1479889342, 9781479890439, 9781479899081
- OCLC
- ocn959980189, ocn953823165
- 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