LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric

Examining the resounding artistry of iconic musicians such as Scott Joplin, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, and Mahalia Jackson, this work offers an alternative register in which these musicians and composers are heard as public intellectuals, consciously invested in crafting rhetorical projects they knew would influence the public...

Rhetoricians and readers interested in African American life and culture will appreciate the cogent analysis in Nunley’s volume.

Encompassing the perspectives of both the "streetand the "academy,Voices of the Self presents an eloquent argument for cultural and linguistic pluralism in American public schools.