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Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature
by Lordi, Emily J. | PB | Good
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780813562490
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism, Music, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Black Resonance : Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Subject
- American / African American, Subjects & Themes / Women, General, American / General, Subjects & Themes / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Series
- The American Literatures Initiative Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Weight
- 15.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10
081356249X
ISBN-13
9780813562490
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9038430451
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Publication Name
Black Resonance : Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature
Language
English
Subject
American / African American, Subjects & Themes / Women, General, American / General, Subjects & Themes / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Music, Social Science
Series
The American Literatures Initiative Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
15.6 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2012-051444
Reviews
Lordi explodes assumptions about the relationship between black writers and black musicians. By blending insightful cultural history, magnificent close readings, and supurb archival research, she refines recent scholarship that reevaluates civil rights era African American literature, the Black Arts Movement, and 21st-century poetry. Her argument's elegant intertwining of cutting-edge theory, enrapturing descriptsions of vocal practice, and clear commentary on literature reminds readers of how much rigorous interdisciplinary inquiry can explain about black creativity. Highly recommended., Lordi's detailed analysis of literature, music, and the relation of black writers to black women singers shows how careful 'close reading' and 'close listening,' when joined into one practice and tempered with a black feministic optic, yields a rich picture of what Houston Baker called black expressive culture., "Black Resonance is a gem ... The book takes us to school, leaving us with insights and skills, pushing readers and writers, singers and dreamers to think about the ways we engage the literary and sonic works of the next generation of black artists and writers." The Journal of American Culture, " Black Resonance is a tremendously innovative, illuminating, and eloquent study that promises to break important new ground in twentieth-century African American literature and literary criticism, black feminist cultural criticism, and popular music and performance studies. Lordi couples her analytical rigor with elegant and imaginative prose that helps us to hear more clearly the resounding voices of women singers in black letters." , Black Resonance is a tremendously innovative, illuminating, and eloquent study that promises to break important new ground in twentieth-century African American literature and literary criticism, black feminist cultural criticism, and popular music and performance studies. Lordi couples her analytical rigor with elegant and imaginative prose that helps us to hear more clearly the resounding voices of women singers in black letters., In language that sparkles and gains momentum, Black Resonance refreshes the conversation about how black music, from the slave songs to hip hop, and literature speak to one another. Offering a brilliant new lexicon for black American cultural analysis, Lordi's book is very welcome required reading for those charting new directions in the field., In chapters that pair Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin with female singers, Lordi works to destabilize the ways black women have been (passively) represented as muses of male writers or as vessels of racialized feeling ... What makes Lordi's book feel fresh is its exemplary attentiveness to the literature and the music., Lordi explodes assumptions about the relationship between black writers and black musicians. By blending insightful cultural history, magnificent close readings, and superb archival research, she refines recent scholarship that reevaluates civil rights era African American literature, the Black Arts Movement, and 21st-century poetry. Her argument's elegant intertwining of cutting-edge theory, enrapturing descriptions of vocal practice, and clear commentary on literature reminds readers of how much rigorous interdisciplinary inquiry can explain about black creativity. Highly recommended., Lordi engages the luminaries of African-American literary criticism (Henry Louis Gates Jr., Claudia Tate, Barbara Johnson, Hortense Spillers, Paul Gilroy, and others), while never muting her own 'signature voice.' This study makes us see--and especially hear--both black female singers and major modern black writers anew ... It blew me away., " Black Resonance is a tremendously innovative, illuminating, and eloquent study that promises to break important new ground in twentieth-century African American literature and literary criticism; black feminist cultural criticism; and popular music and performance studies. Lordi couples her analytical rigor with elegant and imaginative prose that helps us to hear more clearly the resounding voices of women singers in black letters." , Black Resonance is a gem ... The book takes us to school, leaving us with insights and skills, pushing readers and writers, singers and dreamers to think about the ways we engage the literary and sonic works of the next generation of black artists and writers.
Dewey Edition
23
Grade From
College Freshman
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
810.9/896073
Grade To
College Graduate Student
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: Black Resonance 1. Vivid Lyricism: Richard Wright and Bessie Smith's Blues 2. The Timbre of Sincerity: Mahalia Jackson's Gospel Sound and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man 3. Understatement: James Baldwin, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday 4. Haunting: Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" 5. Signature Voices: Nikki Giovanni, Aretha Franklin, and the Black Arts Movement Epilogue: "At Last": Etta James, Poetry, Hip Hop Notes Index
Synopsis
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. 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 Resonance offers new ways of reading and hearing some of the twentieth century?s most beloved and challenging voices., 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. 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 Resonance offers new ways of reading and hearing some of the twentieth century's most beloved and challenging voices., Black Resonance 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. The book focuses on two generations of artists from the 1920s to the 1970s; 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.
LC Classification Number
PS153
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