Soul Covers
Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the Struggle for Artistic Identity (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow)
1st Edition
Published on 4. May 2007
275 pages
978-0-8223-8949-1 (ISBN)
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Cultural and literary study of the construction of racial and artistic identity in soul cover albums of three popular artists--Aretha Franklin, Al Green, and Phoebe Snow.
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Michael Awkward
Soul Covers
Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the Struggle for Artistic Identity (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow)
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05/2007
Duke University Press
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Michael Awkward
Soul Covers
Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the Struggle for Artistic Identity (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow)
Book
05/2007
Duke University Press
€34.00
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Michael Awkward is Gayl A. Jones Collegiate Professor of Afro-American Literature and Culture at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Scenes of Instruction: A Memoir, also published by Duke University Press; Negotiating Difference: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Positionality; and Inspiriting Influences: Tradition, Revision, and Afro-American Women's Novels.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Preface: "How the Parts Relate to the Whole" xiii
Introduction: "I Live in the Lyrics": On Truth, Intent, Image, Identity, and Song Covers 1
"She's the Next One": Aretha Franklin's Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington and the Black Women's Vocal Legacy 25
"Something like Wholeness": Al Green's Call Me and the Struggle for Thematic Integrity 81
"Miss Snow, Are You Black?": Second Childhood and the Cultural Politics of Musical Style in the Post-Civil Rights Era 137
Coda: "Going Home" 201
Notes 213
Bibliography 225
Index 235
Preface: "How the Parts Relate to the Whole" xiii
Introduction: "I Live in the Lyrics": On Truth, Intent, Image, Identity, and Song Covers 1
"She's the Next One": Aretha Franklin's Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington and the Black Women's Vocal Legacy 25
"Something like Wholeness": Al Green's Call Me and the Struggle for Thematic Integrity 81
"Miss Snow, Are You Black?": Second Childhood and the Cultural Politics of Musical Style in the Post-Civil Rights Era 137
Coda: "Going Home" 201
Notes 213
Bibliography 225
Index 235
