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Soul covers : rhythm and blues remakes and the struggle for artistic identity : (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow)

Title
Soul covers : rhythm and blues remakes and the struggle for artistic identity : (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow) / Michael Awkward.
Author
Awkward, Michael
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

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Description
xxvii, 246 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Refiguring American music
Uniform Title
Refiguring American music.
Subject
  • Soul music > History and criticism
  • Franklin, Aretha
  • Green, Al, 1946-
  • Snow, Phoebe
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-233) and index.
Contents
Preface : "how the parts relate to the whole" -- Introduction : "I live in the lyrics" -- On truth, intent, image, identity, and song covers -- "She's the next one" -- Aretha Franklin's unforgettable : a tribute to Dinah Washington and the black women's vocal legacy -- "Something like wholeness" -- Al Green's call me and the struggle for thematic integrity -- "Miss snow, are you black?" -- Second childhood and the cultural politics of musical style in the post-civil rights era -- Coda : "going home"
ISBN
  • 9780822339809 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0822339803 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780822339977 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0822339978 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006034550
OCLC
  • OCM73993699
  • 73993699
  • SCSB-9093491
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries