The Sonic Qualities of Oral Discourse as a Sociopolitical Device Shown in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. The New Studies of English Language & Literature 54 (2013): 47-59. The contention of this paper is to illustrate that Ellison’s commitment to the aesthetics of his work, Invisible Man, shows a consistent awareness of the social and political problems of African Americans that exist in a white-dominated American society and reveals his sensitivity to the challenges they face in overcoming those problems. By incorporating an African American vernacular music, namely jazz, as a sociopolitical device, Ellison offers hope to African Americans by regenerating the fundamental values of American democracy. Thus, this paper demonstrates how Ellison, in his novel, Invisible Man, has formulated himself as an artist who extensively focuses on important social and political matters that are embedded in white American society as he utilizes his knowledge in vernacular music, jazz, in a sociopolitical perspective. (Daegu University)