Words and Songs of Bessie Smith Billie Holiday and Nina Simone is popular PDF and ePub book, written by Melanie E. Bratcher in 2007-11-21, it is a fantastic choice for those who relish reading online the Biography & Autobiography genre. Let's immerse ourselves in this engaging Biography & Autobiography book by exploring the summary and details provided below. Remember, Words and Songs of Bessie Smith Billie Holiday and Nina Simone can be Read Online from any device for your convenience.
Words and Songs of Bessie Smith Billie Holiday and Nina Simone Book PDF Summary
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. Following concordant procedures and principles of Afrocentricity, the study focuses on Smith, Holiday and Simone's performances as part of a whole African artistic and cultural value system. The goal of the Afrocentric methodological structure is to locate relevant African dynamics in songs and to promote knowledge for cultural transformation and continuity. Its use in this study provides meta-criteria for analyzing African American music, which the author has used to uniquely argue connections between African cultural memory and African-derived cultural expression.
Detail Book of Words and Songs of Bessie Smith Billie Holiday and Nina Simone PDF
- Author : Melanie E. Bratcher
- Release : 21 November 2007
- Publisher : Routledge
- ISBN : 9781135861445
- Genre : Biography & Autobiography
- Total Page : 279 pages
- Language : English
- PDF File Size : 21,7 Mb
If you're still pondering over how to secure a PDF or EPUB version of the book Words and Songs of Bessie Smith Billie Holiday and Nina Simone by Melanie E. Bratcher, don't worry! All you have to do is click the 'Get Book' buttons below to kick off your Download or Read Online journey. Just a friendly reminder: we don't upload or host the files ourselves.