{"id":54,"date":"2014-06-30T17:12:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T21:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2020-11-06T13:15:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T18:15:12","slug":"singing-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/?page_id=54","title":{"rendered":"Singing the Nation Into Being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/liftevery-v-libscarolina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-187 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/liftevery-v-libscarolina-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/liftevery-v-libscarolina-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/liftevery-v-libscarolina.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/singingthenation.com\">Singing the Nation<\/a> is a digital humanities project that features a collection of performances of James Weldon Johnson\u2019s \u201cLift Every Voice and Sing\u201d by a variety of singers in various milieu to consider the ways in which Black subjectivity,\u00a0nation, and diaspora are constituted and contested vis-\u00e0-vis singing of \u201cThe Black National Anthem.\u201d Although this project focuses primarily on black women\u2019s performances to examine how their public enactments of nation critique raced and gendered notions of belonging, the site offers a range of performers\u2014small groups, individuals, choirs, mashups, etc.\u2014and a variety of vocal and presentation stylings from a cappella to concert performances to short filmic enactments. \u201cSinging the Nation Into Being\u201d invites us to examine the ways in which each performance highlights the strategies enacted through the textual, sonic, and bodied performance of a \u201cnation with a nation\u201d (DuBois) as well as the limits of these performance.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 320px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-54-1\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/webm\" src=\"http:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/&#038;?_=1#x25b6;-Melba-Moore-Lift-Every-Voice-And-Sing-YouTube.webm\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/&#x25b6;-Melba-Moore-Lift-Every-Voice-And-Sing-YouTube.webm\">http:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/&#x25b6;-Melba-Moore-Lift-Every-Voice-And-Sing-YouTube.webm<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singing the Nation is a digital humanities project that features a collection of performances of James Weldon Johnson\u2019s \u201cLift Every Voice and Sing\u201d by a variety of singers in various milieu to consider the ways in which Black subjectivity,\u00a0nation, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":40,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-54","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions\/328"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}