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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書目詳細資料
主要作者: Lordi, Emily J., 1979-
企業作者: American Literatures Initiative
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press [2013]
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hjbqk
書本目錄:
  • 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.