The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s by Lordi, Emily J.
The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s by Lordi, Emily J.

The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s

In The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept....
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Author: Emily J. Lordi
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s by Lordi, Emily J.

The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s

$409.63
The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s by Lordi, Emily J.

The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s

$409.63
Author: Emily J. Lordi
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Emily J. Lordi
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 08/14/2020
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781478008699


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2021

About the Author
Emily J. Lordi is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and the author of Black Resonance and Donny Hathaway Live.
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