Listening to the Lomax Archive : The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in The 1930s.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stone, Jonathan W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • For Pete's Sake: Audio Preface
  • Introduction: Finding Folkness in the Rhetorical Tradition (Turn, Turn, Turn)
  • Interlude I: Resimplifications
  • One. Sonic Rhetorical Historiography: Reorienting Authenticity during the Interwar Period
  • Two. Rhetoric, Representation, and Race in the Lomax Prison Recordings
  • Interlude II: Oral History's Exigence
  • Three. Inventing Jazz: Jelly Roll Morton and the Sonic Rhetorics of Hot Musical Performance
  • Interlude III: Popular Front Education
  • Four. Folksong on the Radio: The Sounds of Broadcast Democracy on Columbia's American School of the Air
  • Conclusion: Hearing the Lomax Archive
  • Appendix: List of Audio Resources
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index.