The souls of Black folk / by Du Bois, W. E. B. 1868-1963

The sonic color line : race and the cultural politics of listening / by Stoever, Jennifer Lynn

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Sonic Color Line and the Listening Ear -- 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 -- Performing the Sonic Color Line in the Antebellum North: The Swedish Nightingale and the Black Swan -- Preserving "Quare Sounds, " Conserving the "Dark Past": The Jubilee Singers and Charles Chesnutt Reconstruct the Sonic Color Line -- "A Voice to Match All That": Lead Belly, Richard Wright, and Lynching's Soundtrack -- Broadcasting Race: Lena Horne, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Ann Petry.…”

Martin Scorsese presents the blues : a musical journey /

Table of Contents: “…Handy -- We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Stones in my passway / Robert Johnson -- Dream boogie / Langston Hughes -- You know I love you / Lou Willie Turner -- Feel like going home / Martin Scorsese -- Prisoner's talking blues / Robert Pete Williams -- Son House / Christopher John Farley -- Hellhound on my trail / Robert Johnson -- The Blues Avant-Garde / Luc Sante -- The Levee-camp holler / Alan Lomax -- Muddy Waters / Robert Gordon -- A riff on reading Sterling Plumpp's poetry / John Edgar Wideman -- Thank god for Robert Johnson / Elmore Leonard -- Howlin' Wolf / Greg Tate -- Jim Dickinson and his son Luther on coming of age in the North Mississippi hill country -- Why I wear my mojo hand / Robert Palmer -- Ali Farka Tuore: sound travels / Farley -- French talking blues / Catherine Nedonchelle -- Warming by the devil's fire / Charles Burnett -- Bessie Smith / Farley -- Ma Rainey / Sterling Brown -- A night with Bessie Smith / Carl Van Vechten -- Billie Holiday / Hilton Als -- Early downhome b lues recordings / Jeff Todd Titon -- Let's get drunk and truck: a guide to the party blues / James Marshall -- Remembering Robert Johnson / Johnny Shines -- The devil's son-in-law / Ralph Ellison -- Hoboing with Big Joe / David "Honeyboy" Edwards -- The little church / William Faulkner -- Down at the cross / James Baldwin -- Redemption songn / W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Road to Memphis / Richard Pearce -- Furry's blues / Stanley Booth -- Recalling Beale Street in its glory / Will Shade -- Bobby "Blue" Bland [Bobby Bland]: love throat of the blues / Robert Gordon -- The river's invitation / Percy Mayfield -- On the road with Louis Armstrong / David Halberstam -- Sam Phillips on gutbucket blues -- Wolf live in '65 / Robert Palmer -- The soul of a man / Wim Wenders -- Visionary blindness: Blind Lemon Jefferson and other vision-impaired bluesmen / Farley -- Blind Willie McTell / Bob Dylan -- Locating Lightnin' / Samuel Charters -- Henry Thomas: our deepest look at the roots / Mack McCormick -- Janie and Tea Cake / Zora Neale Hurston -- Photographer Peter Amft on J. …”