Harriet Jacobs Gets a Hearing

What can one hear in confinement, and how can that hearing be connective lineament? In her grandmother’s crawlspace for seven years—compressed as a means to escape, confined with access only to shallow air as a means to flight—Harriet Jacobs was both discarded and discardable. What did it mean to be...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ashon Crawley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Columbia University Libraries 2012-03-01
Series:Current Musicology
Online Access:https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5219