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.
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