Format:
1 Online-Ressource (232 p)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9781478012245
Series Statement:
Refiguring American Music
Content:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Keeping On -- 1 From Soul to Post-soul -- 2 We Shall Overcome, Shelter, and Veil -- 3 Rescripted Relations -- 4 Emergent Interiors -- 5 Never Catch Me -- Conclusion: “I’m Tired of Marvin Asking Me What’s Going On” -- Notes -- Index
Content:
In The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to signify a cultural belief in black resilience, which was enacted through musical practices—inventive cover versions, falsetto vocals, adlibs, and false endings. Through these soul techniques, artists such as Aretha Franklin, Donny Hathaway, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Isaac Hayes, and Minnie Riperton performed virtuosic survivorship and thus helped to galvanize black communities in an era of peril and promise. Their soul legacies are later re-animated by such stars as Prince, Solange Knowles, and Flying Lotus. Breaking with prior understandings of soul as a vague masculinist political formation tethered to the Black Power Movement, Lordi offers a vision of soul that foregrounds the intricacies of musical craft, the complex personal and social meanings of the music, the dynamic movement of soul across time, and the leading role played by black women in this musical-intellectual tradition
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781478009597
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9781478009597
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781478012245
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478012245
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478012245
