Examining the work of Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Solange Knowles, Flying Lotus, and others, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of soul, showing how it came to signify a belief in black resilience enacted through musical practices.
Examining the work of Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Solange Knowles, Flying Lotus, and others, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of soul, showing how it came to signify a belief in black resilience enacted through musical practices.
Gänsehaut-Stimmung mitten im Sommer: Am 26. Juli veröffentlichen die finnischen Monster von LORDI eine brandneue DVD über AFM Records. Neben dem Livemitschnitt der Pratteln (Schweiz)- Show der jüngst zurückliegenden "Sextourcism"-Tour befindet sich darauf jede Menge Bonus-Material, manches davon mit echtem Raritäten-Charakter.Obwohl es bereits Live-DVDs von LORDI gibt, so ist diese die erste offizielle Veröffentlichung der Band, welche die Mus...
As I was approaching my mid-forties, I was as weary and broken as a human being could be. " Living in bondage for several years, had taken its toll on me. I was barely existing.
Although the Spirit of God was always with me, I was unable to gain a breakthrough until I finally, and totally, surrendered "ALL" to the Lord Jesus Christ. When I let go of everything, regardless of what the outcome could or would be, was when the miraculous began to ...
As I was approaching my mid-forties, I was as weary and broken as a human being could be. " Living in bondage for several years, had taken its toll on me. I was barely existing.
Although the Spirit of God was always with me, I was unable to gain a breakthrough until I finally, and totally, surrendered "ALL" to the Lord Jesus Christ. When I let go of everything, regardless of what the outcome could or would be, was when the miraculous began to ...
Ever 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 "Black Resonance, " 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 A...
Black Resonance 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. The book focuses on two generations of artists from the 1920s to the 1970s, each chapter pairs one writer with one singer to crystallize the artistic practice they share: lyricism, sincerity, understatement, haunting, and the crea...
In January of 1979, the great soul artist Donny Hathaway fell fifteen stories from a window of Manhattan's Essex House Hotel in an alleged suicide. He was thirty-three years old, and everyone he worked with called him a genius. In this book on Hathaway's 1972 album Donny Hathaway Live--a recording that is a testament to his uncanny ability to amplify the power and beauty of his songs in the moment of live performance--Emily Lordi tells the sto...
Jessica Lennox's life is a shambles. Her comfortable marriage is over, her children are estranged, and her partnership in her CPA firm is hanging by a thread. Although she's only forty-six, she looks and feels old-old and finished. Jessie, a prominent accountant in a small Maryland town, needs to find a way to make lemonade from the lemon trees she seems to have grown in her life's orchard. Someone has financially gutted the CPA firm and frame...
Jessica Lennox's life is a shambles. Her comfortable marriage is over, her children are estranged, and her partnership in her CPA firm is hanging by a thread. Although she's only forty-six, she looks and feels old-old and finished. Jessie, a prominent accountant in a small Maryland town, needs to find a way to make lemonade from the lemon trees she seems to have grown in her life's orchard. Someone has financially gutted the CPA firm and frame...
