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A Dream Deferred: Nina Simone and the Work of Mourning
- Author(s):
- Richard Elliott (see profile)
- Date:
- 2013
- Group(s):
- American Musicological Society, Cultural Studies, Music and Sound
- Subject(s):
- Popular music, Civil rights, History, Popular culture
- Item Type:
- Presentation
- Meeting Title:
- Sussex Center for American Studies Research Seminar
- Meeting Org.:
- Sussex Center for American Studies
- Meeting Loc.:
- University of Sussex
- Meeting Date:
- 19 November 2013
- Tag(s):
- Nina Simone, late voice, mourning, experience, age, Popular Music Studies, Voice
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6QG40
- Abstract:
- This talk presents work from Richard Elliott's recent book about the late singer, songwriter, pianist and civil rights activist Nina Simone. It focuses on Simone's reaction to what she saw as the failure of the civil rights movement and how that reaction was played out in her work from the end of the 1960s onwards, blending into a personal but still critical nostalgia in her late work. The talk also makes reference to the recent commemoration of Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech and Nina Simone's response to King's murder. It also acts as a commemoration of Simone and her legacy, with 2013 marking 80 years since her birth and 10 since her death.
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- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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