Description: Title: Fantasies of Nina Simone Author: Stein, Jordan Alexander Publisher: Duke University Press Binding: Paperback Pages: 320 Dimensions: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d Product Weight: 0.94 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781478030706 Since her death in 2003, Nina Simone has been the subject of an astonishing number of rereleased, remastered, and remixed albums and compilations as well as biographies, films, viral memes, samples, and soundtracks. In Fantasies of Nina Simone, Jordan Alexander Stein uses an archive of Simone's performances, images, and writings to examine the space between our collective and individual fantasies about Simone the performer, civil rights activist, and icon, and her own fantasies about herself. Stein outlines how Simone gave voice to personal fantasies through the dozens of cover songs that she released of her white male contemporaries such as George Harrison, the Bee Gees, and Bob Dylan. With these covers, Simone explored and claimed the power and perspective that come with race and gender privilege. Looking at examples from Simone's four-decade, genre-bending, career--from songbook standards, jazz, and pop to folk, junkanoo, and reggae--and at her work's many uptakes and afterlives, Stein mobilizes the psychoanalytic concept of fantasy to build a black feminist history with and for this multifaceted performing artist. Authorized Dealer Actual Book Cover May Vary
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Book Title: Duke University Press
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Fantasies of Nina Simone
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: History & Criticism, Women's Studies, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Music, Social Science
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Jordan Alexander Stein
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
