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Description for Nina Simone
Paperback. Placing Simone and her music firmly within the socio-historical context of the 1960s, this book also argues for the importance of considering the artist's entire career and for paying greater attention to her music than is often the case in biographical accounts. Series: Icons of Pop Music. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: AVGJ; AVH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 160 x 10. Weight in Grams: 222.
Since her death in 2003, Nina Simone has continued to be revered as a cultural icon and role model for scores of fans and fellow musicians. Much of her fame derives from her association with the civil rights movement, for which she wrote such classic songs as 'Mississippi Goddam', 'Four Women' and 'Young, Gifted and Black'. The defiance and affirmation of such anthems was accompanied by an equal dedication to songs of melancholy, yearning and spiritual questing. Placing Simone and her music firmly within the socio-historical context of the 1960s, this book also argues for the importance of considering the ... Read more
Since her death in 2003, Nina Simone has continued to be revered as a cultural icon and role model for scores of fans and fellow musicians. Much of her fame derives from her association with the civil rights movement, for which she wrote such classic songs as 'Mississippi Goddam', 'Four Women' and 'Young, Gifted and Black'. The defiance and affirmation of such anthems was accompanied by an equal dedication to songs of melancholy, yearning and spiritual questing. Placing Simone and her music firmly within the socio-historical context of the 1960s, this book also argues for the importance of considering the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Icons of Pop Music
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845539887
SKU
V9781845539887
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Ref
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About Richard Elliott
Richard Elliott is Lecturer in Popular Music at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Fado and the Place of Longing: Loss, Memory and the City (Ashgate, 2010)and has published articles and reviews on a number of topics, including popular music, literature, consciousness, memory, nostalgia, place and space, affect, language and technology.
Reviews for Nina Simone
Nina Simone, a twentieth-century musical giant, has been astonishingly neglected - by listeners, critics and scholars. Richard Elliott explains why, but his wonderful book does far more: with enviable depth of analysis and breadth of cultural reference, he summons Simone's music to a rendezvous with history that its significance, power and beauty always promised. An event, in every sense.' Richard ... Read more