On Rhetoric and Black Music

Earl H. Brooks

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 sphere.

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9780814346471
  • Publication Date: Jun 2024
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Native American Rhetoric

Lawrence W. Gross

Native American Rhetoric is the first book to explore rhetorical traditions from within individual Native communities and Native languages.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780826365620
  • Publication Date: Dec 2023
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The Union Generals Speak

Bill Hyde

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780807181980
  • Publication Date: Oct 2023
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The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner

Andre E. Johnson

An essential reader of the powerful orations of an African American religious leader

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781496843869
  • Publication Date: Mar 2023
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A Time to Speak

Charles Morgan

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780817360481
  • Publication Date: Feb 2022
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The Rhetoric of Donald Trump

Robert C. Rowland

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9780700631964
  • Publication Date: May 2021
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Laying Claim

Patricia G. Davis

Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity explores the practices and cultural institutions that define and sustain African American “southernness,” demonstrating that southern identity is more expansive than traditional narratives that center on white culture.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780817360252
  • Publication Date: May 2021
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Nineteenth-Century American Activist Rhetorics

Patricia Bizzell

Essays cover nineteenth-century American activists' rhetorics and their echoes in contemporary American activism using a variety of theoretical lenses, such as classical rhetorical tropes, feminism, gender, and race. In addition to texts such as letters, sermons, and speeches, a variety of rhetorical contexts such as monuments, strikes, protests, and theater are considered.

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781603295208
  • Publication Date: Dec 2020
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Speaking American

Zevi Gutfreund

Speaking American reveals how, for generations, language instruction offered a forum for Angelino educators to articulate their responses to policies that racialized access to citizenship—from the “national origins” immigration quotas of the Progressive Era through Congress’s removal of race from these quotas in 1965.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780806167398
  • Publication Date: Aug 2020
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Speaking in Shakespeare's Voice

Linda Gates

A guide to speaking Shakespearean dialogue for American actors and students of acting, including technical elements of voice and speech such as breathing, resonance, and diction.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780810139909
  • Publication Date: May 2019
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Lynching

Ersula J. Ore

A rhetorical framework to comprehend antiblack violence today within racialized citizenship since Reconstruction

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781496821591
  • Publication Date: Mar 2019
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A War of Words

R. Jarrod Atchison

A War of Words analyzes Jefferson Davis's public discourse, arguing that throughout his time as president of the Confederacy, Davis settled for short-term rhetorical successes at the expense of creating more substantive and meaningful messages for himself and his constituents.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780817359461
  • Publication Date: Feb 2019
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Unlocking Russian Pronunciation: A Supplementary Multimedia Mini-Course in Phonetics Based on Famous Russian Songs

American Council Of Teachers Of Russian

  • Format: Spiral bound
  • ISBN: 9781524983635
  • Publication Date: Jan 2019
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The Rhetoric of Lincoln's Letters

Marshall Myers

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780786463206
  • Publication Date: Jul 2018
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Talking with Americans On and Off Campus

Anne Siebert

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780866474689
  • Publication Date: Mar 2018
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Vicente Ximenes, LBJ's Great Society, and Mexican American Civil Rights Rhetoric

Michelle Hall Kells

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780809336395
  • Publication Date: Dec 2017
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Back to the Blanket

Kimberly G. Wieser

Exploring the multimodal rhetorics—oral, written, material, visual, embodied, kinesthetic—that create meaning in historical discourse, Wieser argues for the rediscovery and practice of traditional Native modes of communication—a modern-day ""going back to the blanket,"" or returning to Native practices.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780806157283
  • Publication Date: Nov 2017
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Retroactivism in American Lesbian Collectives

Jean Bessette

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780809336234
  • Publication Date: Nov 2017
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Legible Sovereignties

Lisa King

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780870719127
  • Publication Date: Oct 2017
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Speaking Qur’an

Timur R. Yuskaev

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781611177947
  • Publication Date: Oct 2017
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