Spatial Dialectics: Intimations of Freedom in Antebellum Slave Song
(2015)
Journal Article
Barker, T. P. (2015). Spatial Dialectics: Intimations of Freedom in Antebellum Slave Song. Journal of Black Studies, 46(4), 363-383. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021934715574499
The purpose of this article is to explore how music provided the U.S. plantation-slaves with a space in which the hegemony of the White ruling class could be subverted, adapted, and resisted. Consistent with the beliefs of slave religion, which saw t... Read More about Spatial Dialectics: Intimations of Freedom in Antebellum Slave Song.