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Exploring the rhetoric and cultural significance of African American folk music during the Great Depression

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • For Pete's Sake: Audio Preface
  • Introduction. Finding Folkness in Rhetorical Studies (Turn, Turn, Turn)
  • Interlude I: Resimplifications
  • Chapter 1. Sonic Rhetorical Historiography: Re-Orienting Authenticity During the Inter-War Period
  • Chapter 2. Rhetoric, Representation, and Race in the Lomax Prison Recordings
  • Interlude II: Oral History's Exigence
  • Chapter 3. Inventing Jazz: Jelly Roll Morton and the Sonic Rhetorics of Hot Musical Performance
  • Interlude III: Popular Front Education
  • Chapter 4. Folksong on the Radio: The Sounds of Broadcast Democracy on Columbia's American School of the Air
  • Conclusion. Hearing the Lomax Archive
  • Appendix: List of Audio Resources
  • Works Cited

    Listening to the Lomax Archive

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        Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
        Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/30/2021 12:00:00 AM
        ISBN13: 9780472038558, 978-0472038558
        ISBN10: 0472038559

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Exploring the rhetoric and cultural significance of African American folk music during the Great Depression

        Table of Contents
        • Acknowledgments
        • For Pete's Sake: Audio Preface
        • Introduction. Finding Folkness in Rhetorical Studies (Turn, Turn, Turn)
        • Interlude I: Resimplifications
        • Chapter 1. Sonic Rhetorical Historiography: Re-Orienting Authenticity During the Inter-War Period
        • Chapter 2. Rhetoric, Representation, and Race in the Lomax Prison Recordings
        • Interlude II: Oral History's Exigence
        • Chapter 3. Inventing Jazz: Jelly Roll Morton and the Sonic Rhetorics of Hot Musical Performance
        • Interlude III: Popular Front Education
        • Chapter 4. Folksong on the Radio: The Sounds of Broadcast Democracy on Columbia's American School of the Air
        • Conclusion. Hearing the Lomax Archive
        • Appendix: List of Audio Resources
        • Works Cited

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