{"id":646,"date":"2018-09-17T22:04:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T22:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/?p=646"},"modified":"2018-09-17T22:04:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T22:04:34","slug":"voice-and-the-sonic-color-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/blog-09\/voice-and-the-sonic-color-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice and The Sonic Color Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the \u201cIntroduction to The Sonic Color-Line&#8221;,\u00a0Stoever dissects race and racial conflict in terms of what she describes as the sonic color line; this is the idea that sound is connected with race in American society. For instance, Stoever mentions Douglass, which is interesting as it provides insight on <i>Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave.<\/i> He wrote, \u201c[The slaves] would sometimes sing the most pathetic sentiment in the most rapturous tone, and the most rapturous sentiment in the most pathetic tone\u201d(Douglass, Ch.1). This quote is meant to describe the slave songs that Douglass used to hear; he claims that the song were\u00a0either profoundly sad despite the joyous melody or that despite the joyous lyrics there was a terribly sad melody. <span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Further, slaves spoke of sadness, yet white people\u00a0firmly believed them to be content with their lives, hearing the songs but not listening. This relates to the idea that there is a racial divide in terms of who is listened to and who is simply heard, supporting Stoever\u2019s\u00a0sonic color line theory. However, while I understand Stoever\u2019s theory, I am still confused on how this idea of listening and sound in the sonic color line influences voice. Is it meant to show that only certain people have a voice because of the sonic color line or that\u00a0everybody has a voice and the sonic color line plays a role in that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the \u201cIntroduction to The Sonic Color-Line&#8221;,\u00a0Stoever dissects race and racial conflict in terms of what she describes as the sonic color line; this is the idea that sound is connected with race in American society. For instance, Stoever mentions Douglass, which is interesting as it provides insight on Narrative of the Life of Frederick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-blog-09","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}