By Jennifer Lynn Stoever
ISBN-10: 1479889342
ISBN-13: 9781479889341
ISBN-10: 147989043X
ISBN-13: 9781479890439
Using an leading edge multimedia archive spanning a hundred years of yank historical past (1845-1945) and a number of other creative genres—the slave narrative, opera, the radical, so-called “dialect stories,” folks and blues, early sound cinema, and radio drama—The Sonic colour Line explores how black thinkers conceived the cultural politics of listening at paintings in the course of slavery, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow. by way of amplifying Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, Charles Chesnutt, The Fisk Jubilee Singers, Ann Petry, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Lena Horne as brokers and theorists of sound, Stoever offers a brand new point of view on key canonical works in African American literary heritage. within the procedure, she considerably revises the confirmed historiography of sound reviews. The Sonic colour Line sounds out how americans have created, heard, and resisted “race,” in order that we may well pay attention our modern global differently.
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