Black resonance : iconic women singers and African American literature /
"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 writin...
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press
[2013]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hjbqk |
Table of 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.