The Sonic Color Line. Jennifer Lynn Stoever

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      THE SONIC COLOR LINE

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      The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening

      Jennifer Lynn Stoever

      The Sonic Color Line

      Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening

      Jennifer Lynn Stoever

      NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

      New York

      NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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      © 2016 by New York University

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      ISBN: 978-1-4798-9043-9 (hardback)

      ISBN: 978-1-4798-8934-1 (paperback)

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      A book in the American Literatures Initiative (ALI), a collaborative publishing project of NYU Press, Fordham University Press, Rutgers University Press, Temple University Press, and the University of Virginia Press. The Initiative is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information, please visit www.americanliteratures.org.

      CONTENTS

       Acknowledgments

       Introduction: The Sonic Color Line and the Listening Ear

       1. The Word, the Sound, and the Listening Ear: Listening to the Sonic Color Line in Frederick Douglass’s 1845 Narrative and Harriet Jacobs’s 1861 Incidents

       2. Performing the Sonic Color Line in the Antebellum North: The Swedish Nightingale and the Black Swan

       3. Preserving “Quare Sounds,” Conserving the “Dark Past”: The Jubilee Singers and Charles Chesnutt Reconstruct the Sonic Color Line

       4. “A Voice to Match All That”: Lead Belly, Richard Wright, and Lynching’s Soundtrack

       5. Broadcasting Race: Lena Horne, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Ann Petry

       Afterword

       Notes

       Index

       About the Author

      For my grandma Maryanne (1923–2001), whose lovingly gruff, crumpled-paper-bag voice still carries me.

      For my dad, Jeff (1948–2011), who first taught me how to listen, and whose brown Koss KO/747 headphones rest right next to my stereo.

      For my son, Martin, who arrived amidst the writing of this book. You teach me to listen anew while letting me think I am teaching you. Your voice will always be my favorite sound. I love you more! Infinity!

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      “Can you sing out in the pouring rain? / Can you sing out, can you sing out?”

      —Fishbone, “Pouring Rain”

      In summer 2015, I was honored to thank Norwood Fisher and Angelo Moore of Fishbone in person for being my first, СКАЧАТЬ