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Black resonance : iconic women singers and African American literature / Emily J. Lordi.
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Lordi, Emily J., 1979-
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English
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New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Description
xiii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
PS153.N5 L68 2013
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American fiction
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African American authors
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History and criticism
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African American women singers
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In literature
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African American women in literature
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Music in literature
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American Literatures Initiative
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Summary note
"Ever since Bessie Smith's powerful voice conspired with the "race records" industry to make her a star in the 1920s, African American writers have memorialized the sounds and theorized the politics of black women's singing. In Black Resonance, Emily J. Lordi analyzes writings by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gayl Jones, and Nikki Giovanni that engage such iconic singers as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, and Aretha Franklin. Focusing on two generations of artists from the 1920s to the 1970s, Black Resonance reveals a musical-literary tradition in which singers and writers, faced with similar challenges and harboring similar aims, developed comparable expressive techniques. Drawing together such seemingly disparate works as Bessie Smith's blues and Richard Wright's neglected film of Native Son, Mahalia Jackson's gospel music and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, each chapter pairs one writer with one singer to crystallize the artistic practice they share: lyricism, sincerity, understatement, haunting, and the creation of a signature voice."--Publisher website.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-274) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Black resonance
Vivid lyricism: Richard Wright and Bessie Smith's blues
The timbre of sincerity: Mahalia Jackson's gospel sound and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Understatement: James Baldwin, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Haunting: Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit"
Signature voices: Nikki Giovanni, Aretha Franklin, and the Black Arts movement
Epilogue: "At Last": Etta James, poetry, hip hop.
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ISBN
9780813562506 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
0813562503 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
9780813562490 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
081356249X ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
0813562511 ((e-book))
9780813562513 ((e-book))
LCCN
2012051444
OCLC
828190152
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40022924494
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