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The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s
Ort / Verlag
Duke University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
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.