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Maurice O. Wallace explores the sonic character of Martin Luther King Jr.'s voice and how a mixture of architecture, acoustics, sound technology, and gospel influenced it.

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"King's Vibrato provides the opportunity to listen to and hear black cultural history through the ears of Maurice O. Wallace." -- Diane Grams * Ethnic and Racial Studies *

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
I. Architectures of the Incantatory
1. Dying Words: The Aural Afterlife of Martin Luther King Jr. 21
2. Swinging the God Box: Modernism, Organology, and the Ebenezer Sound 43
3. The Cantor King: Reform Preaching, Cantorial Style, and Acoustic Memory in Chicago’s Black Belt 71
II. Nettie’s Nocturne
4. King’s Gospel Modernism: The Politics of Lament, the Politics of Loss 97
5. Four Women: Alberta, Coretta, Mahalia, Aretha 138
III. Technologies of Freedom
6. King’s Vibrato: Visual Oratory and the “Sound of the Photograph” 185
7. Dream Variations: “I Have a Dream” and the Sonic Politics of Race and Place 229
Epilogue. “It’s Moanin’ Time”: Black Grief and the End of Words 273
Notes 281
Bibliography 325
Index 343

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      Publisher Duke University Press
      Published 6 September 2022
      ISBN-13 9781478018407
      978-1478018407
      ISBN-10 1478018402
      Also in:
      Non Fiction History Social and cultural history Christianity

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Maurice O. Wallace explores the sonic character of Martin Luther King Jr.'s voice and how a mixture of architecture, acoustics, sound technology, and gospel influenced it.

      Trade Review
      "King's Vibrato provides the opportunity to listen to and hear black cultural history through the ears of Maurice O. Wallace." -- Diane Grams * Ethnic and Racial Studies *

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments ix
      Introduction 1
      I. Architectures of the Incantatory
      1. Dying Words: The Aural Afterlife of Martin Luther King Jr. 21
      2. Swinging the God Box: Modernism, Organology, and the Ebenezer Sound 43
      3. The Cantor King: Reform Preaching, Cantorial Style, and Acoustic Memory in Chicago’s Black Belt 71
      II. Nettie’s Nocturne
      4. King’s Gospel Modernism: The Politics of Lament, the Politics of Loss 97
      5. Four Women: Alberta, Coretta, Mahalia, Aretha 138
      III. Technologies of Freedom
      6. King’s Vibrato: Visual Oratory and the “Sound of the Photograph” 185
      7. Dream Variations: “I Have a Dream” and the Sonic Politics of Race and Place 229
      Epilogue. “It’s Moanin’ Time”: Black Grief and the End of Words 273
      Notes 281
      Bibliography 325
      Index 343

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