Remarkable Receptions
A podcast about popular and critical responses to African American novels, artistic productions, and more.
Remarkable Receptions
Alliteration as Cultural Strategy ep. by Howard Rambsy II
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Howard Rambsy II
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Season 23
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Episode 15
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A brief take on recurring alliteration in African American language practices, tracing how phrases like Sorrow Songs, Freedom Fighters, and New Negro Movement, use sound, rhythm, and repetition to enhance memorability, circulate ideas, and reinforce traditions of creativity, resistance, and representation.
Script by Howard Rambsy II
Read by Kassandra Timm