Stoever, Jennifer Lynn
The Sonic Color Line
- ISBN 13:
- 9781479889341
- author:
- Stoever, Jennifer Lynn
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- New York University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2016
- Pages:
- 352
- Dimensions:
- 22.86 x 14.99 x 2.29 centimetres
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Race Relations,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The Sonic Color Line: A New Perspective on Race and Sound in America. Jennifer Lynn Stoever's groundbreaking study challenges conventional wisdom about the relationship between race and sound, arguing that American ideologies of white supremacy are just as dependent on what we hear as they are on skin color or hair texture. Through meticulous historical research and analysis of a range of artistic genres, including slave narratives, opera, and blues music, Stoever reveals how racialized aural representations operate at the level of the unseen. By exploring the cultural politics of listening during slavery, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow, she provides a new perspective on key canonical works in African American literary history. This book radically revises the established historiography of sound studies, amplifying the voices of black thinkers such as Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, and W.E.B. Du Bois to shed light on the complex ways in which sound and listening produce racial politics.
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