{"product_id":"black-resonance-iconic-women-singers-and-african-american-literature-9780813562490","title":"Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eEver since Bessie Smith's powerful voice conspired with the \"race records\" industry to make her a star in the 1920s, African American writers have memorialized the sounds and theorized the politics of black women's singing. In \u003ci\u003eBlack Resonance\u003c\/i\u003e, Emily J. Lordi analyzes writings by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gayl Jones, and Nikki Giovanni that engage such iconic singers as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, and Aretha Franklin. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on two generations of artists from the 1920s to the 1970s, \u003ci\u003eBlack Resonance\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a musical-literary tradition in which singers and writers, faced with similar challenges and harboring similar aims, developed comparable expressive techniques. Drawing together such seemingly disparate works as Bessie Smith's blues and Richard Wright's neglected film of \u003ci\u003eNative Son\u003c\/i\u003e, Mahalia Jackson's gospel music and Ralph Ellison's \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e, each chapter pairs one writer with one singer to crystallize the artistic practice they share: lyricism, sincerity, understatement, haunting, and the creation of a signature voice. In the process, Lordi demonstrates that popular female singers are not passive muses with raw, natural, or ineffable talent. Rather, they are experimental artists who innovate black expressive possibilities right alongside their literary peers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first study of black music and literature to centralize the music of black women, \u003ci\u003eBlack Resonance\u003c\/i\u003e offers new ways of reading and hearing some of the twentieth century's most beloved and challenging voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emily J. Lordi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813562490\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEMILY J. LORDI is an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40180655784051,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":33.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_764769f6-74da-43df-a3d0-8b30d67c5d55.jpg?v=1655471444","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/black-resonance-iconic-women-singers-and-african-american-literature-9780813562490","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}