TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lordi,Emily J.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Black resonance: iconic women singers and African American literature 
T2  - American Literatures Initiative
SN  - 9780813562513
AV  - PS153.N5 L68 2013
U1  - 810.9/896073 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New Brunswick, New Jersey
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Music in literature
KW  - African American women in literature
KW  - African American women singers
KW  - In literature
KW  - American fiction
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813562513/
ER  -