The sonic color line : race and the cultural politics of listening /
Stoever, Jennifer Lynn.
The sonic color line : race and the cultural politics of listening / Jennifer Lynn Stoever. - New York : New York University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource. - Postmillennial pop .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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
9781479899081
Music and race--History.--United States
African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
Electronic Books.
ML3917 / .S665 2016
The sonic color line : race and the cultural politics of listening / Jennifer Lynn Stoever. - New York : New York University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource. - Postmillennial pop .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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
9781479899081
Music and race--History.--United States
African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
Electronic Books.
ML3917 / .S665 2016