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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wallace, Maurice O. (Maurice Orlando), 1967- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Subjects:	King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968. King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968 > Oratory. African American preaching > United States > History > 20th century. Sermons, American > African American authors. Voice > Social aspects. Elocution > Social aspects. Vibrato > Social aspects. 1900-1999 Electronic books.
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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.