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King's vibrato : modernism, Blackness, and the sonic life of Martin Luther King Jr. /

"King's Vibrato explores the sonic power of preaching and speech-making in the life and career of Martin Luther King Jr. It offers up a cultural and historical reading of what regularly passes uncritically as the unique preaching power of one who "spoke with the tongues of men and of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wallace, Maurice O. (Maurice Orlando), 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Architectures of the Incantatory
  • Dying Words: The Aural Afterlife of Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Swinging the God-box: Architecture, Organology and the Ebenezer Sound
  • The Cantor King: Reform Preaching, Cantorial Style and Acoustic Memory in Chicago's Black Belt
  • Nettie's Nocturne
  • The Poetics of Lament, the Politics of Loss: Thomas Dorsey's Gospel Modernism
  • Four Women: Alberta, Coretta, Mahalia, Aretha
  • Technologies of Freedom
  • King's Vibrato: Visual Oratory and 'the Sound of the Photograph
  • Dream Variations: 'I Have a Dream' and the Sonic Politics of Race and Place
  • Epilogue. It's Moanin' Time: Black Grief and the End of Words.