Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Find more Left of Black here: https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/left-black
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."
This discussion between host Dr. Mark Anthony Neal and Professor Wallace is the launch of a new series called "Small Talk at Rofhiwa," a collaboration between Rofhiwa Books Café and Left of Black, the longest running video webcast produced at Duke by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. The "Small Talk at Rofhiwa" series takes its inspiration from Gil Scott-Heron's debut recording "Small Talk at 125th and Lenox."
Learn more about Dr. Wallace here: https://english.rutgers.edu/people/faculty-profiles/details/1370-chair-s-office/6571-wallace-maurice.html
Find his book here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/kings-vibrato
Left of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.
Directed and edited by Eric Barstow.
@FranklinHumanities @dukeuniversity @FranklinCenterAtDuke #BlackStudies #blackscholars
Find more Left of Black here: https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/left-black
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."
This discussion between host Dr. Mark Anthony Neal and Professor Wallace is the launch of a new series called "Small Talk at Rofhiwa," a collaboration between Rofhiwa Books Café and Left of Black, the longest running video webcast produced at Duke by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. The "Small Talk at Rofhiwa" series takes its inspiration from Gil Scott-Heron's debut recording "Small Talk at 125th and Lenox."
Learn more about Dr. Wallace here: https://english.rutgers.edu/people/faculty-profiles/details/1370-chair-s-office/6571-wallace-maurice.html
Find his book here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/kings-vibrato
Left of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.
Directed and edited by Eric Barstow.
@FranklinHumanities @dukeuniversity @FranklinCenterAtDuke #BlackStudies #blackscholars
