Black resonance : : iconic women singers and African American literature / / Emily J. Lordi.
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| Superior document: | American Literatures Initiative |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, New Jersey : : Rutgers University Press,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American Literatures Initiative
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (303 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: 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.