Rivista | Il Tolomeo
Fascicolo | 24 | 2022
Articolo | Musical/Textual Double Consciousness in W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk
Musical/Textual Double Consciousness in W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk
- Adriano Elia - Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italia - email
Abstract
Besides introducing groundbreaking critical concepts such as double consciousness, colour line and the veil, W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk (1903) was among the first books to attribute universal dignity to black music. It did so by devoting a whole chapter to the ‘sorrow songs’, seen as “the articulate message of the slave to the world”, as well as by opening each chapter with epigraphs composed of bars of ‘black’ spirituals juxtaposed with lines of poetry by notable ‘white’ authors – Symons, Lowell, Byron, among others – in a musical/textual version of double consciousness. Reconsidering the composite formal structure of The Souls of Black Folk and the role of the spirituals as ceaseless reminders of freedom, the paper explores the ways in which Du Bois’s speculations on black music foreshadow contemporary sonic/textual strategies.
Presentato: 01 Luglio 2022 | Accettato: 06 Ottobre 2022 | Pubblicato 19 Dicembre 2022 | Lingua: en
Keywords Spirituals • The Souls of Black Folk • Double consciousness • Du Bois • Sound studies
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dc.title |
Musical/Textual Double Consciousness in W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk |
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dc.contributor.author |
Elia Adriano |
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dc.publisher |
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari |
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Articolo |
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en |
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http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/il-tolomeo/2022/1/musicaltextual-double-consciousness-in-web-du-bois/ |
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dc.description.abstract |
Besides introducing groundbreaking critical concepts such as double consciousness, colour line and the veil, W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk (1903) was among the first books to attribute universal dignity to black music. It did so by devoting a whole chapter to the ‘sorrow songs’, seen as “the articulate message of the slave to the world”, as well as by opening each chapter with epigraphs composed of bars of ‘black’ spirituals juxtaposed with lines of poetry by notable ‘white’ authors – Symons, Lowell, Byron, among others – in a musical/textual version of double consciousness. Reconsidering the composite formal structure of The Souls of Black Folk and the role of the spirituals as ceaseless reminders of freedom, the paper explores the ways in which Du Bois’s speculations on black music foreshadow contemporary sonic/textual strategies. |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Il Tolomeo |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Vol. 24 | Dicembre 2022 |
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dc.issued |
2022-12-19 |
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dc.dateAccepted |
2022-10-06 |
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dc.dateSubmitted |
2022-07-01 |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
2499-5975 |
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dc.rights |
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2022/01/019 |
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dc.peer-review |
yes |
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dc.subject |
Double consciousness |
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dc.subject |
Du Bois |
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dc.subject |
Sound studies |
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dc.subject |
Spirituals |
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dc.subject |
The Souls of Black Folk |
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