What is the sound of history in the cadence of Dr. King's speeches?
Rutgers University Professor Maurice O. Wallace (Duke Ph.D, 1995) returned to Durham, NC at Rofhiwa Book Café to discuss his new book King′s Vibrato; Modernism, Blackness, and the Sonic Life of Martin Luther King Jr., published by Duke University Press. Of "King's Vibrato," Pulitzer Prize winning essayist Salimishah Tillet writes, "Off these pages leaps a version of King that kept on honing his craft to become both a trumpet of America's conscience and a sonic tributary for black America."
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