Black resonance : iconic women singers and African American literature / Emily J. Lordi.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: American Literatures Initiative ; Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (303 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813562513 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Black resonance : iconic women singers and African American literature.DDC classification:
  • 810.9/896073 23
LOC classification:
  • PS153.N5 L68 2013eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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