Fantasies of Nina Simone

Since her death in 2003, Nina Simone has been the subject of an astonishing number of rereleased,...
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Author: Jordan Alexander Stein
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Language: English
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Fantasies of Nina Simone by Stein, Jordan Alexander

Fantasies of Nina Simone

CHF 61.57

Fantasies of Nina Simone

CHF 61.57
Author: Jordan Alexander Stein
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Since her death in 2003, Nina Simone has been the subject of an astonishing number of rereleased, remastered, and remixed albums and compilations as well as biographies, films, viral memes, samples, and soundtracks. In Fantasies of Nina Simone, Jordan Alexander Stein uses an archive of Simone's performances, images, and writings to examine the space between our collective and individual fantasies about Simone the performer, civil rights activist, and icon, and her own fantasies about herself. Stein outlines how Simone gave voice to personal fantasies through releasing dozens of covers of her white male contemporaries. With her covers of George Harrison, the Bee Gees, Bob Dylan, and others, Simone explored and claimed the power and perspective that come with race and gender privilege. Looking at examples from Simone's four-decade genre-bending career--from songbook standards, jazz, and pop to folk, junkanoo, and reggae--and at her work's many uptakes and afterlives, Stein mobilizes the psychoanalytic concept of fantasy to build a black feminist history with and for this multifaceted performing artist.

Author: Jordan Alexander Stein
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 09/27/2024
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9781478030706

About the Author
Jordan Alexander Stein is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Fordham University and author of When Novels Were Books and Avidly Reads Theory.

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