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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: 11/30/2021 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472038558, 978-0472038558
      ISBN10: 0472038559
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      Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Theory of music and musicology Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      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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