{"product_id":"kings-vibrato-9781478018407","title":"Kings Vibrato","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaurice 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eKing's Vibrato\u003c\/i\u003e provides the opportunity to listen to and hear black cultural history through the ears of Maurice O. Wallace.\" -- Diane Grams * Ethnic and Racial Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e I. Architectures of the Incantatory\u003cbr\u003e 1. Dying Words: The Aural Afterlife of Martin Luther King Jr.  21\u003cbr\u003e 2. Swinging the God Box: Modernism, Organology, and the Ebenezer Sound  43\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Cantor King: Reform Preaching, Cantorial Style, and Acoustic Memory in Chicago’s Black Belt  71\u003cbr\u003e II. Nettie’s Nocturne\u003cbr\u003e 4. King’s Gospel Modernism: The Politics of Lament, the Politics of Loss  97\u003cbr\u003e 5. Four Women: Alberta, Coretta, Mahalia, Aretha  138\u003cbr\u003e III. Technologies of Freedom\u003cbr\u003e 6. King’s Vibrato: Visual Oratory and the “Sound of the Photograph”  185\u003cbr\u003e 7. Dream Variations: “I Have a Dream” and the Sonic Politics of Race and Place  229\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. “It’s \u003ci\u003eMoanin’\u003c\/i\u003e Time”: Black Grief and the End of Words  273\u003cbr\u003e Notes  281\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  325\u003cbr\u003e Index  343","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409008435543,"sku":"9781478018407","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478018407.jpg?v=1730505071","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/kings-vibrato-9781478018407","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}