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Words and Songs of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone: Sound Motion, Blues Spirit, and African Memory

Words and Songs of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone: Sound Motion, Blues Spirit, and African Memory

Bratcher, Melanie E.

Hardcover

Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

Blues & SoulJazzMusic Reference

ISBN10: 0415980291
ISBN13: 9780415980296
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 15 2007
Pages: 278
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.37 Depth: 9.16
Language: English

This book explores the relationship between three African American women's dance-art-music sensibilities within the context of a Pan African aesthetic. Its purpose is three-fold: to show commonalities between Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone's lives and original compositions; to codify, examine and evaluate their selected song performances in accordance with the Pan African aesthetic Nzuri theory/model; and to illuminate the vast sources of transformational values that aesthetic analysis of African American song performance can foster.

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