| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech. By Shane White and Graham White. (Boston: Beacon, 2005. xxii, 241 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8070-5026-1.)

The Australian historians Shane White and Graham White again break new ground in retrieving the experiences of African Americans and the white people among them during the period of enslavement. Building on their earlier premise by scrutinizing black American culture of that period by defining particular aspects of style, White and White dig deep into the oral testimony of the formerly enslaved, into contemporary writings of European Americans about African Americans, and into recordings of African Americans held in the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress. In the authors' previous book, Stylin': African American Expressive Culture, from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit (1998), bodily adornment became the central example, but here the authors examine the styles of sounds, significantly comparing what they meant to the people making the sounds with what they meant to those outside the black communities.

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