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Black resonance :

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081356249X

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0813562503

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0813562511

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1306118190

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1461951968

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9780813562490

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9780813562506

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9780813562513

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9781306118194

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9780813562490

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9780813562506

Title Proper

Black resonance :

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[Book]

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iconic women singers and African American literature /

First Statement of Responsibility

Emily J. Lordi.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New Brunswick, New Jersey :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Rutgers University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2013]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiii, 286 pages) :

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illustrations.

Series Title

American Literatures Initiative

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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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"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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JSTOR

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22573/ctt4jtrgx

Title

Black resonance : iconic women singers and African American literature.

International Standard Book Number

9780813562506

African American women in literature.

African American women singers-- In literature.

American fiction-- African American authors-- History and criticism.

Music in literature.

African American women in literature.

American fiction-- African American authors.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.

MUSIC-- General.

Music in literature.

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Lordi, Emily J.,1979-

Date of Transaction

20200822133917.0

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