Black resonance [electronic resource] : iconic women singers and African American literature / Emily J. Lordi.
Material type: TextSeries: American Literatures Initiative | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN:- 9780813562513
- 0813562511
- 810.9/896073 23
- PS153.N5 L68 2013
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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