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Lecture Video Segment 2: Introduction: Black Women's Vocality The black woman's singing voice can signal a crisis in the spectacle of national unity; it can even invoke such a crisis by mobilizing dissent.... What other American voice resonates in this way, mobilizes in this way, evokes a picture of national unity at times of crisis and yet is also capable of invoking a crisis in a tenuous national unity as well? How does a vocal tradition that first emerged in the creation and service of an oppressed people end up in service to a nation that has been hostile to the aspirations of black people? | |