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The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s (Refiguring

The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s (Refiguring American Music) Paperback - 2020

by Lordi, Emily J

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  • Title The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s (Refiguring American Music)
  • Author Lordi, Emily J
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press
  • Date 2020-08-14
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR010939566
  • ISBN 9781478009597 / 1478009594
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Popular music - United States - History and, Soul music - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019057426
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.644

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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, ad-libs, 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 were later reanimated 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.

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  • Choice, 10/01/2021, Page 0
  • Foreword, 06/26/2020, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 06/01/2020, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 06/01/2020, Page 87
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/08/2020, Page 0

About the author

Emily J. Lordi is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and the author of Black Resonance and Donny Hathaway Live.