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