Listening to the Lomax Archive: The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s
- Author: Stone, Jonathan W.
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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