The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s Material:Paperback Jay is a soft soul

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The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s Material:Paperback Jay is a soft soulExamining the work of Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Solange Knowles, Flying Lotus, and others, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of soul, showing how it came to signify a belief in black resilience enacted through musical practices. 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