Description: 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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EAN: 9781478009597
UPC: 9781478009597
ISBN: 9781478009597
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Item Length: 22.6 cm
Book Title: The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s
Item Height: 229mm
Item Width: 152mm
Author: Emily J. Lordi
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Social Sciences, Music, History
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 340g
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
