Sonic Zora in Florida

Sonic Zora in Florida

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In this media-enhanced excerpt from Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life Misc. of Black Feminist Sound (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021), Daphne A.Brooks delves into Zora Neale Hurston's 1939 experiences as the only Black woman on the staff of the Federal Writers Project's Florida Guide.A keen listener, interviewer, and ethnographer, Hurston, as heard in these recordings, was also Square Roasting Tin a sonic interpreter of vernacular voices and performance styles.