AcknowledgmentsResistance of the Object: Aunt Hester's Scream11The Sentimental Avant-GardeDuke Ellington's Sound of Love25Voices/Forces31Sound in Florescence (Cecil Taylor Floating Garden)41Praying with Eric632In the BreakTragedy, Elegy85The Dark Lady and the Sexual Cut102German Inversion122'Round the Five Spot1493Visible MusicBaldwin's Baraka, His Mirror Stage, the Sound of His Gaze171Black Mo'nin' in the Sound of the Photograph192Tonality of Totality211Resistance of the Object: Adrian Piper's Theatricality233Notes255Index307