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Nina Simone: Don't Let ME be Misunderstood

Hardback

Main Details

Title Nina Simone: Don't Let ME be Misunderstood
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Richard Williams
SeriesMojo heroes
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:160
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 130
Category/GenreBands, groups and musicians
Biographies: Arts and Entertainment
ISBN/Barcode 9781841953687
ClassificationsDewey:782.42164092
Audience
General
Illustrations 8pp b&w plates

Publishing Details

Publisher Canongate Books Ltd
Imprint MOJO Books
Publication Date 1 February 2004
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Nina Simone was the first of the soul divas, and the most spectacular. Before Aretha Franklin, before Diana Ross, she established herself as a performer whose talent was matched only by her refusal to accept compromise. A classically trained prodigy, she brought her gift to bear on the whole sweep of African-American music, and much more besides. She refused to stand still but pushed ahead into an engagement with the blues, gospel, folk songs and even rock and roll, but just as she was becoming acclaimed by the rock audience the course of her career veered away from the safe, conventional paths into an engagement with black consciouness. her long involvement with the movement included a friendship with the black power leader Stokely Carmichael, and time spent in Africa. She remains a performer of compelling magnetism.