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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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2022
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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