Wallace King's Vibrato

Modernism, Blackness, and the Sonic Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2299-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

Maurice O. Wallace explores the sonic character of Martin Luther King Jr.’s voice and how a mixture of architecture, acoustics, sound technology, and gospel influenced it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wallace, Maurice O.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Homiletik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
I. Architectures of the Incantatory
1. Dying Words: The Aural Afterlife of Martin Luther King Jr. 21
2. Swinging the God Box: Modernism, Organology, and the Ebenezer Sound 43
3. The Cantor King: Reform Preaching, Cantorial Style, and Acoustic Memory in Chicago’s Black Belt 71
II. Nettie’s Nocturne
4. King’s Gospel Modernism: The Politics of Lament, the Politics of Loss 97
5. Four Women: Alberta, Coretta, Mahalia, Aretha 138
III. Technologies of Freedom
6. King’s Vibrato: Visual Oratory and the “Sound of the Photograph” 185
7. Dream Variations: “I Have a Dream” and the Sonic Politics of Race and Place 229
Epilogue. “It’s Moanin’ Time”: Black Grief and the End of Words 273
Notes 281
Bibliography 325
Index 343

Über Autor(innen)

Maurice O. Wallace is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, author of Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature and Culture, 1775–1995, and coeditor of Pictures of Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity, both also published by Duke University Press.