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Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age
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GoodGoodale as mentioned in this paper, Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011), xi + 189 pp. $75.00 (cloth), $27.34 (e-book).Abstract:
Greg Goodale, Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011), xi + 189 pp. $75.00 (cloth), $27.00 (paper), $14.34 (e-book). Sonic Persuasion emerge...read more
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Straight Love, No Chaser: Authenticity and the Soul Music Revival
Abstract: This project explores the revived interest in American soul music and the ways that contemporary soul musicians negotiate the concept of “authenticity.” Two contemporary record labels, Daptone Records and Numero Group, have spearheaded this revival. As I argue, their ascendance is symptomatic of larger, more sweeping concerns; a response to something lost that needs to be reclaimed, or something underrepresented that needs to be represented. For these reasons, I view Daptone and Numero Group as instructive case studies in the analysis of authenticity as a term of separation, distinction, acclaim, and prestige. Further, articulations of authenticity define the terms under which these disputations are fought. They illuminate soul music’s contentious relationship with its past and explain its enduring relevance in the present— a relevance necessarily wrought with assumptions about what types of ethical commitments from the past are worth reclaiming and preserving. This dissertation aims to reveal Daptone’s and Numero Group’s ethical commitments, showing them to be disciplined by the selective uptake of certain sonic qualities, attitudinal dispositions, and aspirational goals that critique popular music aesthetics. Contestations of authenticity appear both in the ways that these two record labels perceive and interpret the legacy of soul music in the 1960s and 1970s and in the affective and sonic qualities that they champion in doing so. I argue that the term “authenticity” be foregrounded in rhetorical scholarship as a primary object of concern. More importantly, however, I also argue that the story of American soul music is a particularly fertile site from which scholars in communication can reassess their understandings of how aesthetic values become authenticated through time.
Journal ArticleDOI
Auscultating Again: Rhetoric and Sound Studies
TL;DR: LaBelle as discussed by the authors presents Ambient Rhetoric: The Attunements of Rhetorical Being, by Thomas Ricker and Thomas R.Ricker. New York: Continuum, 2010. 304 pp.
Journal ArticleDOI
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TL;DR: The visual metaphors that permeate FDR's rhetoric are especially intriguing because of the way it interacted with the prevailing political culture in order to underwrite radical shifts in political power by helping FDR persuade the mass public to accept a synoptic view of nationalism and governmental responsibility as mentioned in this paper.
Journal ArticleDOI
Sonic colour zones: Laura Boulton and the hunt for music
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the production of sonic colour zones through Laura Boulton's recordings in Africa and the Caribbean in the 1920s and 30s, focusing on the relationship between humans and animals.
Dissertation
National phonography : field recording and sound archiving in Postwar Britain
TL;DR: In this article, acknowledgements vii and acknowledgements viii are given for the work presented in this paper. But they ignore the references of the authors' acknowledgements.