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100 1 a| Awkward, Michael.=| ^A239017;

245 10 a| Soul covers :b| rhythm and blues remakes and the struggle for artistic identity : (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow) /c| Michael Awkward.;

260 a| Durham :b| Duke University Press,c| 2007.;

300 a| xxvii, 246 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 23 cm.;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

490 1 a| Refiguring American music;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233) and index.;

505 0 a| 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".;

520 a| This is an engaging look at how three very different rhythm and blues performers--Aretha Franklin, Al Green, and Phoebe Snow--used cover songs to negotiate questions of artistic, racial, and personal authenticity. Through close readings of song lyrics and the performers' statements about their lives and work, the author traces how Franklin, Green, and Snow crafted their own musical identities partly by taking up songs associated with artists such as Dinah Washington, Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, George Gershwin, Billie Holiday, and the Supremes. The author sees Franklin?s early album Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington, released shortly after Washington's death in 1964, as an attempt by a struggling young singer to replace her idol as the acknowledged queen of the black female vocal tradition. He contends that Green's album Call Me (1973) reveals the performer?s attempt to achieve formal coherence by uniting seemingly irreconcilable aspects of his personal history, including his career in popular music and his religious yearnings, as well as his sense of himself as both a cosmopolitan black artist and a forlorn country boy. Turning to Snow's album Second Childhood (1976), the author suggests that through covers of blues and soul songs, Snow, a white Jewish woman from New York, explored what it means for non-black enthusiasts to perform works considered by many to be black cultural productions. The only book-length examination of the role of remakes in American popular music, this book is itself a refreshing new take on the lives and work of three established soul artists.;

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650 0 a| Soul musicx| History and criticism.=| ^A1023045;

830 0 a| Refiguring American music.=| ^A711575;

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

Author/creator	Awkward, Michael
Format	Book
Publication Info	Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Description	xxvii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects	Franklin, Aretha. Green, Al, 1946- Snow, Phoebe. Soul music--History and criticism.

Series	Refiguring American music Refiguring American music. ^A711575
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".
Abstract	This is an engaging look at how three very different rhythm and blues performers--Aretha Franklin, Al Green, and Phoebe Snow--used cover songs to negotiate questions of artistic, racial, and personal authenticity. Through close readings of song lyrics and the performers' statements about their lives and work, the author traces how Franklin, Green, and Snow crafted their own musical identities partly by taking up songs associated with artists such as Dinah Washington, Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, George Gershwin, Billie Holiday, and the Supremes. The author sees Franklin?s early album Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington, released shortly after Washington's death in 1964, as an attempt by a struggling young singer to replace her idol as the acknowledged queen of the black female vocal tradition. He contends that Green's album Call Me (1973) reveals the performer?s attempt to achieve formal coherence by uniting seemingly irreconcilable aspects of his personal history, including his career in popular music and his religious yearnings, as well as his sense of himself as both a cosmopolitan black artist and a forlorn country boy. Turning to Snow's album Second Childhood (1976), the author suggests that through covers of blues and soul songs, Snow, a white Jewish woman from New York, explored what it means for non-black enthusiasts to perform works considered by many to be black cultural productions. The only book-length examination of the role of remakes in American popular music, this book is itself a refreshing new take on the lives and work of three established soul artists.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233) and index.
LCCN	2006034550
ISBN	9780822339809 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0822339803 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780822339977 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	0822339978 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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