From Blues to Beyonc

Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface: A Tale of Two Stories: Listening to Liminal Spaces to Listen to Myself
Introduction
Chapter 1 Sonic Sharecropping
	Fertile Ground: Sound as Land + Labor
		Developing a Sharecropping Praxis and Mentality
		Southern State of Mind: Normative Applications of Sharecropping
	Coining a Phrase
	Resonance of (Sonic) Labor
	Tensions with Technology and the Early Days of the Industry: Unionizing Sound + Twentieth-Century Legislative Affairs
		Surviving the Music (Industry)
		As the Story Goes
	Black Feminist Activism: Resisting Sonic Sharecropping for Generations
		Starting the Cycle (Over)
	“Securing All the Bags”
Chapter 2 “Strange Fruit” Sonic Rhetorics
	A Changing Same Is a Past Not Yet Past
	A Piece of “Strange Fruit” History
		The Other History
	Evolution of “Strange Fruit” Sonic Rhetorics
		Unchaining the Melody, or “Jim Crow Jesus . . . Rose Again”
	“Strange Fruit” Sonic Rhetorics
		Sonic as Rhetoric
	It’s Not Over
Chapter 3 Queer(ing) Sound, Time, and Grammar: Black Women’s Methods for Generative Prosodic Rhetoric
	What We (Don’t) Already Know
		Theoretically Queering Time
		A Black Grammar
		Applying Methods of Theoretical, Queer Black Time in Grammar
	“That Big Wheel Keep on Turning,” So Let’s “Fuck It Up to the Tempo”8
		“Look at How I Bodied That”
		“We All Gonna Get It in Due Time”
	Why So Tense?: Reading Time through a Queer, Sonic, Black Grammar
Chapter 4 Audible Advice, or Mentorship in Sound: A Black (Feminist) Practice of Care through Sonic Rhetorics
	Scene 1
	Scene 2
	Scene 3
	Caring for Black Feminist Public Intellectual Histories
		(Re)defining Common Archetypes of (Black Women) Public Intellectuals
	Hush Harbor Sound E/Scape Discourses
		Vocal Applications of Hush Harbors
		Interludes
			Gossip
	“Look at My Big Dream!”: Drawing the Curtain Back on Generational Struggles
Chapter 5 Reverb: A Coda for a Quiet, Undisputed Dignity in Sound
	Reverb (n): /rə’vərb/
Notes
References
Index