Toward the rhetoric of music: Dixie

Critical response and reply

“…This approach has typically revealed the rhetorical impact of one song or one artist by examining the ways in which lyrics, the artist, instruments, melody, chords, and rhythm determine the meaning of a song or artist. While we need such analyses, at least the theoretical guidelines for such analyses have been available for some time (see, e.g., Irvine & Kirkpatrick, 1972) and multiple models of the approach now exist (see, e.g., Gonzalez & Makay, 1983;Holmberg, 1985;Weisman, 1985). Unfortunately, other approaches and methods have not been as extensively examined.…”

The rhythm of rhetoric: Jesse Jackson at the 1988 democratic national convention

“…This liter-THE RHYTHM OF RHETORIC 255 ature divides itself between concerns over the general influence of music on rhetorical form (Holmberg, 1985;Knupp, 1981;LeCoat, 1976 andMorhmann &Scott, 1976) and approaching music as a medium from a rhetorical standpoint, (Auld, 1984;Burns, 1988;Chaffee, 1985;Francesconi, 1986;Lull, 1985Lull, , 1987McLaughlin, 1970;Rasmussen, 1994;Rickert, 1979and Shepherd, 1985.…”