Imagine the sound: experimental African American literature after civil rights

Introduction: the acoustics of unfreedom

The sonic field of resistance: free jazz and the horizon of black aesthetic expansion

Apocalyptic soundscapes: listening to Henry Dumas's short fiction

Peering into the maw: Larry Neal's aesthetic universe

Sonic futurity in Toni Cade Bambara's The salt eaters

The radical tonality of James Baldwin's post/civil rights blues

Epilogue: sounding the long civil rights moment.