The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s Material:Paperback The Man Who Cried I

The Man Who Cried I Am stakes out a range of experience rarely seen in American fiction: from the life of a Black GI to the ferment of postcolonial Africa to an insider’s view of Washington politics in the era of segregation and the Civil Rights Movement

each of Ruby’s relatives prepares a special dish to share at their family reunion

smoky sausage

with honors and awards pouring in from around the country

nuclear dirigibles buoyed by barkcloth balloons

The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s Material:Paperback The Man Who Cried IExamining 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. In The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to signify a cultural belief in black resilience, which was enacted