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Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American
History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech
Shane White, Graham J. White
ISBN: 0807050261
Format: Hardcover, 288pp
Pub. Date: April 2005
Publisher: Beacon Press
List Price: $27.00 |
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Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons,
and Speech
Shane White, Graham J. White
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Allowing us to eavesdrop on the past, The Sounds of Slavery is a fascinating,
innovative, and accessible account of the aural dimension of slavery. Through
vivid anecdotes and firsthand accounts, White and White expand our historical
ear from the 1700s through the 1850s, showing how profoundly slaves shaped the
American soundscape.
From the quotidian sounds of a plantation at dawn to the baying of hounds on
the trail of runaways to whistling in Richmond, Virginia, in the 1850s, this
book is the closest we"ll ever get to imagining and re-creating the diverse
sounds of slavery. Enhancing the experience with an 18-track CD
compilation-with most of the tracks recorded in the 1930s-White and White
enable us to hear a complex history that for too long has been silent.
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