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Emily J. Lordi

s an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the author of Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature (2013). She is writing a book on the meaning of soul.

Essays & Reviews

Black Magic,
White Soul

By Emily J. LordiNovember 19, 2013
When it comes to the birth of soul, the documentary Muscle Shoals would rather credit the dirt than the singers
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