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King's vibrato : modernism, blackness, and the sonic life of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Title
- King's vibrato : modernism, blackness, and the sonic life of Martin Luther King Jr. / Maurice O. Wallace.
- Author
- Wallace, Maurice O. (Maurice Orlando), 1967-
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 352 pages : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm
- Summary
- "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 angels," but which depends (in both predictable and surprising ways) on an acoustic calculus involving, but not reducible to, architecture, instrumentation, audience, and technology in oratorical performativity. Together, the acoustical considerations of ecclesial architecture in the US since 1900, the regular furnishing of aspirational African American church buildings with pipe organry, and African Americans' special relationship to speech and song created the conditions for that unique vibrato effect in King's voice with which he moved the world. In more general terms, King's Vibrato is a cultural history and critical theory of the black modernist soundscapes, North and South, that helped produce the vocal timbre and time signature of the preacher King"--
- Subject
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 > Oratory
- 1900-1999
- African American preaching > History > 20th century
- Sermons, American > African American authors
- Voice > Social aspects
- Elocution > Social aspects
- Vibrato > Social aspects
- African American preaching
- Oratory
- Voice
- Secondary sex characteristics
- Sermons, American
- Elocution
- Social aspects
- Vibrato
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-342) and index.
- Contents
- I. Architectures of the Incantatory -- Dying Words: The Aural Afterlife of Martin Luther King Jr. -- Swinging the God-box: Modernism, Organology and the Ebenezer Sound -- The Cantor King: Reform Preaching, Cantorial Style and Acoustic Memory in Chicago's Black Belt -- II. Nettie's Nocturne -- King's Gospel Modernism: The Poetics of Lament, the Politics of Loss -- Four Women: Alberta, Coretta, Mahalia, Aretha -- III. 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-174
- ISBN
- 9781478015741
- 1478015748
- 9781478018407
- 1478018402
- 9781478022992 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2021044935
- OCLC
- 1264139243
- Author
- Wallace, Maurice O. (Maurice Orlando), 1967- author.
- Title
- King's vibrato : modernism, blackness, and the sonic life of Martin Luther King Jr. / Maurice O. Wallace.
- Publisher
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-342) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-174