TOMORROW: Earl Brooks on the Rhetoric of Mahalia Jackson
On Wendesday, Nov. 17 at noon, Dr. Earl Brooks will discuss the rhetoric of gospel music legend Mahalia Jackson as part of the Dresher Center's series CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now. Dr. Brooks' presentation will follow a presentation by Kelley Bell (Visual Arts) about working with a master automata artist in England.
Move On Up a Little Higher: The Rhetoric of Mahalia Jackson
Earl Brooks, Assistant Professor, English; Dresher Center Summer 2020 Faculty Fellow
Mahalia Jackson’s mastery of the gospel sound became a critical element of the Black freedom struggle. This book chapter from his upcoming book, Black Sonority: Rhetoric and Black Music, frames Jackson as a rhetorician par excellence while exploring the larger role of gospel music in public discourse. Brooks argues Jackson’s unique sound became an ideological and religious site of consensus, as well as a sonic commonplace between various strands of black music.
Earl Brooks, Assistant Professor, English; Dresher Center Summer 2020 Faculty Fellow
Mahalia Jackson’s mastery of the gospel sound became a critical element of the Black freedom struggle. This book chapter from his upcoming book, Black Sonority: Rhetoric and Black Music, frames Jackson as a rhetorician par excellence while exploring the larger role of gospel music in public discourse. Brooks argues Jackson’s unique sound became an ideological and religious site of consensus, as well as a sonic commonplace between various strands of black music.
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Posted: November 17, 2020, 1:12 PM
