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 through musical
practices―inventive cover versions, falsetto vocals, ad-libs, and false
endings. Through these soul techniques, artists such as Aretha Franklin,
Donny Hathaway, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Isaac Hayes, and Minnie
Riperton performed virtuosic survivorship and thus helped to galvanize
black communities in an era of peril and promise. Their soul legacies
were later reanimated by such stars as Prince, Solange Knowles, and
Flying Lotus. Breaking with prior understandings of soul as a vague
masculinist political formation tethered to the Black Power movement,
Lordi offers a vision of soul that foregrounds the intricacies of
musical craft, the complex personal and social meanings of the music,
the dynamic movement of soul across time, and the leading role played by
black women in this musical-intellectual tradition.
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