CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Sonic Color Line and the Listening Ear
1. The Word, the Sound, and the Listening Ear: Listening to the Sonic Color Line in Frederick Douglass’s 1845 Narrative and Harriet Jacobs’s 1861 Incidents
2. Performing the Sonic Color Line in the Antebellum North: The Swedish Nightingale and the Black Swan
3. Preserving “Quare Sounds,” Conserving the “Dark Past”: The Jubilee Singers and Charles Chesnutt Reconstruct the Sonic Color Line
4. “A Voice to Match All That”: Lead Belly, Richard Wright, and Lynching’s Soundtrack
5. Broadcasting Race: Lena Horne, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Ann Petry
Afterword
Notes
Index
About the Author
