Soul Covers: Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the Struggle for Artistic Identity (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow)
(Part of the Refiguring American Music Series)
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Soul Covers 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 literary critic Michael Awkward traces how Franklin, Green, and Snow crafted their own musical identities partly by taking up...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822339978
ISBN13:9780822339977
Release Date:May 2007
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:280 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.6" x 9.0"
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