On rhetoric and Black music

"This groundbreaking work examines how Black music functions as rhetoric, considering its subject not merely reflective of but central to African American public discourse. Author, musician, and scholar Earl H. Brooks argues that there would have been no Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Movemen...

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1. Verfasser: Brooks, Earl H. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Detroit Wayne State University Press [2024]
Schriftenreihe:African American life series
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: Of our spiritual and musical strivings
  • Ragtime, race, and rhetoric
  • Duke converses with the world
  • The rhetoric of Mary Lou Williams
  • A (rhetorical) love supreme
  • Move on up: the rhetorical mastery of Mahalia Jackson
  • Conclusion: Shout chorus