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Black Resonance
2013,2019
Overview
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. InBlack 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 Resonancereveals 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 ofNative Son, Mahalia Jackson's gospel music and Ralph Ellison'sInvisible 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. In the process, Lordi demonstrates that popular female singers are not passive muses with raw, natural, or ineffable talent. Rather, they are experimental artists who innovate black expressive possibilities right alongside their literary peers.
The first study of black music and literature to centralize the music of black women,Black Resonanceoffers new ways of reading and hearing some of the twentieth century's most beloved and challenging voices.
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Subject
/ African American women in literature
/ African American women singers
/ African American women singers -- In literature
/ American
/ American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism
/ artistic
/ artists
/ black
/ blues
/ creation of a signature voice
/ gospel
/ hip hop
/ jazz
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / General
/ lyricism
/ lyrics
/ Music
/ Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
/ rhythm
/ singers
/ singing
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
/ star
/ talent
/ voice
/ voices
/ writers
ISBN
0813562511, 9780813562513, 9780813562506, 0813562503, 9780813562490, 081356249X
