Awkward / McGovern / Radano Soul Covers

Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the Struggle for Artistic Identity (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow)
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8949-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 275 Seiten

Reihe: Refiguring American Music

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Awkward, Michael

McGovern, Charles

Radano, Ronald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.