Emily J Lordi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1118210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily J Lordi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily J |
| FAMILY NAME | Lordi |
| SIGNATURE | LORDI E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Black Resonance
Ever since Bessie Smith’s powerful voice conspired with the “race records” industry to make her a star in the 1920s, African American writers have memorialized the sounds and theorized the politics of black women’s singing. In Black Resonance , Emily J. Lordi analyzes writings by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gayl Jones, and Nikki Giovanni that engage such iconic singers as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, and Aretha…
Surviving the Hustle
This essay reads Beyoncé's vocal practices, visual productions, and comments on her own music to theorize her changing conceptions of artistic labor in relation to neoliberal theories of work. I argue that whereas her career is initially shaped by a spectacular performance of hard work and perfectionism that peaks on her 2011 album 4, her 2013 album BEYONCÉ "knocks her own hustle," in Lester Spence's terms, advancing an aesthetic of spontaneity a…
Souls intact
This article redefines and regenders the meaning of soul in black expressive culture. The author argues that by the late 1960s the term encodes a narrative whereby racialized struggle yields a culturally superior style, and it shows how black women artists use literary and musical techniques to perform this recuperative alchemy. Reading Audre Lorde’s 1982 biomythography Zami as a paradigmatic soul text, the author contends that this text invites …
James Baldwin and The Sound of Soul
Research Article| July 01 2016 James Baldwin and The Sound of Soul Emily J. Lordi Emily J. Lordi University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2016) 16 (2): 31–46. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.16.2.0031 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Emily J. Lordi; James Baldwin and The Sound …
The Black Female Body in Literature and Art
Book Review| September 01 2014 The Black Female Body in Literature and Art: Performing Identity Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women’s Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text The Black Female Body in Literature and Art: Performing Identity. By Brown, Caroline A.. New York: Routledge. 2012. xvi, 289 pp. Cloth, $128.00; paper, $44.95.Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women’s Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text. By Brown, Kimberly Niche…
Fading Out: White Flight and Sly and the Family Stone's “Stand!”
Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture
Reviewed by: Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture Emily J. Lordi (bio) Parham, Marisa. Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2009. What is there to say about the fact that African Americans generally assumed that Raynard Johnson, an African American teenager found hanging from a tree at his Mississippi home in 2000, had been lynched, while white townspeople gener…
Babylon Girls
Reviewed by: Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern Emily Lordi Brown, Jayna . Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern. Durham: Duke UP, 2008. The title of Jayna Brown's Babylon Girls—an important cultural history of African American women stage performers from 1890 to 1945—comes from the 1936 film adaptation of Marc Connelly's play, The Green Pastures. In one of the play/film's many heavy-…
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Babylon Girls
Reviewed by: Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern Emily Lordi Brown, Jayna . Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern. Durham: Duke UP, 2008. The title of Jayna Brown's Babylon Girls—an important cultural history of African American women stage performers from 1890 to 1945—comes from the 1936 film adaptation of Marc Connelly's play, The Green Pastures. In one of the play/film's many heavy-…
Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture
Reviewed by: Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture Emily J. Lordi (bio) Parham, Marisa. Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2009. What is there to say about the fact that African Americans generally assumed that Raynard Johnson, an African American teenager found hanging from a tree at his Mississippi home in 2000, had been lynched, while white townspeople gener…
Fading Out: White Flight and Sly and the Family Stone's “Stand!”
The Black Female Body in Literature and Art
Book Review| September 01 2014 The Black Female Body in Literature and Art: Performing Identity Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women’s Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text The Black Female Body in Literature and Art: Performing Identity. By Brown, Caroline A.. New York: Routledge. 2012. xvi, 289 pp. Cloth, $128.00; paper, $44.95.Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women’s Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text. By Brown, Kimberly Niche…
Souls intact
This article redefines and regenders the meaning of soul in black expressive culture. The author argues that by the late 1960s the term encodes a narrative whereby racialized struggle yields a culturally superior style, and it shows how black women artists use literary and musical techniques to perform this recuperative alchemy. Reading Audre Lorde’s 1982 biomythography Zami as a paradigmatic soul text, the author contends that this text invites …
James Baldwin and The Sound of Soul
Research Article| July 01 2016 James Baldwin and The Sound of Soul Emily J. Lordi Emily J. Lordi University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2016) 16 (2): 31–46. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.16.2.0031 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Emily J. Lordi; James Baldwin and The Sound …
Surviving the Hustle
This essay reads Beyoncé's vocal practices, visual productions, and comments on her own music to theorize her changing conceptions of artistic labor in relation to neoliberal theories of work. I argue that whereas her career is initially shaped by a spectacular performance of hard work and perfectionism that peaks on her 2011 album 4, her 2013 album BEYONCÉ "knocks her own hustle," in Lester Spence's terms, advancing an aesthetic of spontaneity a…
Black Resonance
Ever since Bessie Smith’s powerful voice conspired with the “race records” industry to make her a star in the 1920s, African American writers have memorialized the sounds and theorized the politics of black women’s singing. In Black Resonance , Emily J. Lordi analyzes writings by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gayl Jones, and Nikki Giovanni that engage such iconic singers as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, and Aretha…
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