The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons, and Speech, Volumen1Beacon Press, 2005 - 241 páginas Allowing us to eavesdrop on the past, The Sounds of Slavery is a fascinating, innovative, and accessible account of the aural dimension of slavery. Through vivid anecdotes and firsthand accounts, White and White expand our historical ear from the 1700s through the 1850s, showing how profoundly slaves shaped the American soundscape. From the quotidian sounds of a plantation at dawn to the baying of hounds on the trail of runaways to whistling in Richmond, Virginia, in the 1850s, this book is the closest we'll ever get to imagining and re-creating the diverse sounds of slavery. Enhancing the experience with an 18-track CD compilation--with most of the tracks recorded in the 1930s--White and White enable us to hear a complex history that for too long has been silent. |
Contenido
All we knowed was go and come by de bells and horns | 1 |
To translate everyday experiences into living sound | 20 |
De music of the slaves make dese Cab Galloways of today git to de woods an hide | 38 |
Sing no hymns of your own composing | 55 |
He can invent a plausible Tale at a Moments Warning | 72 |
Boots or no boots I gwine shout today | 97 |
When we had a black preacher that was heaven | 120 |
Soundtracks of the City Charleston New York and New Orleans | 145 |
Soundtracks of the City Richmond in the 1850s | 168 |
The Sounds of Freedom | 187 |
NOTES | 191 |
Recordings of African American field calls songs prayers and sermons | 229 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 231 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History ..., Volumen1 Shane White,Graham J. White Vista de fragmentos - 2005 |
Términos y frases comunes
African American culture Alabama Narratives American Slave audience Black Culture black preacher black speech calls century Charles Charleston chorus church city's comp Congo Square congregation Culture and Black dancing decades drum Eileen Southern English ex-slaves former slave Francis Bebey Frederick Law Olmsted free blacks freedom funeral Georgia Narratives Gullah gwine hear heard holler hymns Ibid interviewer Jesus language Latrobe listened Lomax master melismas Mississippi Narratives Negro niggers night noise North Olmsted orig Orleans owners performance plantation preach Rawick religious reprinted in Windley rhythms ring shout Runaway Slave Advertisements sang Sea Islands sermon Shane White Sinful Tunes singers singing slave music slave preachers Slave Songs slavery sounds of black sounds of slavery South Carolina Southern spirituals streets sung Swing low Texas Narratives Thomas Wentworth Higginson tion tonal tones track University Press Virginia voices Westport William Francis Allen words York Zora Neale Hurston
Referencias a este libro
Atlas of Slavery and Civil Rights: An Annotated Chronicle of the Passage ... Nicholas J Santoro Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
La genesi della potenza americana. Da Jefferson a Wilson Loretta Valtz Mannucci Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |