TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wallace,Maurice O
TI  - King's vibrato: modernism, blackness, and the sonic life of Martin Luther King Jr. 
SN  - 9781478018407
U1  - 323.092 23/eng/20211230
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - King, Martin Luther
KW  - Antropología cultural y social
KW  - Literatura afro
KW  - Ciencias sociales
KW  - Religion
KW  - Música
KW  - Sociología
KW  - Lengua inglesa
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 325-342); Part I - Architectures of the Incantatory -- Dying Words: The Aural Afterlife of Martin Luther King Jr. -- Swinging the God Box: Modernism, Organology, and the Ebenezer Sound -- The Cantor King: Reform Preaching, Cantorial Style and Acoustic Memory in Chicago's Black Belt -- Part II - Nettie's Nocturne -- King's Gospel Modernism  -- Four Women: Alberta, Coretta, Mahalia, Aretha -- Part III - Technologies of Freedom --  King's Vibrato: Visual Oratory and the "Sound of the Photograph"  -- Dream Variations: "I Have a Dream" and the Sonic Politics of Race and Place -- "It's Moanin' Time": Black Grief and the End of Words
N2  - "King's Vibrato explores the sonic power of preaching and speech-making in the life and career of Martin Luther King Jr. It offers up a cultural and historical reading of what regularly passes uncritically as the unique preaching power of one who "spoke with the tongues of men and of angels," but which depends (in both predictable and surprising ways) on an acoustic calculus involving, but not reducible to, architecture, instrumentation, audience, and technology in oratorical performativity. Together, the acoustical considerations of ecclesial architecture in the US since 1900, the regular furnishing of aspirational African American church buildings with pipe organry, and African Americans' special relationship to speech and song created the conditions for that unique vibrato effect in King's voice with which he moved the world. In more general terms, King's Vibrato is a cultural history and critical theory of the black modernist soundscapes, North and South, that helped produce the vocal timbre and time signature of the preacher King"--
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