Never a Wasted Hum
The Freedom Singing of Fannie Lou Hamer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4808169 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julia Cox (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 139-157 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women's studies quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0732-1562 • E-ISSN: 1934-1520 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/wsq.2018.0036 |
| OpenAlex | W2898525416 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This article analyzes the musicality of activist Fannie Lou Hamer's speech at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. By theorizing her convention testimony as a protest song, I explore how Hamer used sonic techniques such as repetition, voice merging, and vernacular speech not only to argue for greater black representation at the convention but also to dismantle gendered hierarchies of political leadership and center black women's lives inside a utopic vision of the civil rights movement
Acoustics · Art · Art history · Convention · Democracy · Hum · Linguistics · Literature · Performance art · Political science · Politics · Singing · Sociology · Vernacular · Gender Studies · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |