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020 _a9780813562513
020 _a0813562511
020 _z9780813562506 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 _z9780813562490 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
_dBD-SySUS.
050 0 0 _aPS153.N5
_bL68 2013
082 0 0 _a810.9/896073
_223
100 1 _aLordi, Emily J.,
_d1979-
245 1 0 _aBlack resonance
_h[electronic resource] :
_biconic women singers and African American literature /
_cEmily J. Lordi.
260 _aNew Brunswick, New Jersey :
_bRutgers University Press,
_c2013.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (pages cm.)
490 0 _aAmerican Literatures Initiative
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aMusic in literature.
650 0 _aAfrican American women in literature.
650 0 _aAfrican American women singers
_xIn literature.
650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_xAfrican American authors
_xHistory and criticism.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813562513/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c28831
_d28831