D’Angelo’s Voodoo
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2020
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-3650-8 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-3650-8 (ISBN)
Voodoo, D'Angelo's much-anticipated 2000 release, set the standard for the musical cycle ordained as "neo-soul," a label the singer and songwriter would reject more than a decade later. The album is a product of heightened emotions and fused sensibilities; an amalgam of soul, rock, jazz, gospel, hip-hop, and Afrobeats. D'Angelo put to music his own pleasures and insecurities as a man-child in the promised land. It was both a tribute to his musical heroes: Prince, Sly Stone, Marvin Gaye, J Dilla...and a deconstruction of rhythm and blues itself.
Despite nearly universal acclaim, the sonic expansiveness of Voodoo proved too nebulous for airplay on many radio stations, seeping outside the accepted lines of commercial R&B music. Voodoo was Black, it was definitely magic, and it was nearly overshadowed by a four-minute music video featuring D'Angelo's sweat-glistened six-pack abs. "The Video" created an accentuated moment when the shaman lost control of the spell he cast.
Despite nearly universal acclaim, the sonic expansiveness of Voodoo proved too nebulous for airplay on many radio stations, seeping outside the accepted lines of commercial R&B music. Voodoo was Black, it was definitely magic, and it was nearly overshadowed by a four-minute music video featuring D'Angelo's sweat-glistened six-pack abs. "The Video" created an accentuated moment when the shaman lost control of the spell he cast.
Faith A. Pennick is a Chicago-born, Los Angeles-based filmmaker and writer. Pennick's fiction and nonfiction films have aired on U.S. television and screened at film festivals throughout the world. She has written for National Public Radio and the pop culture website The Learned Fangirl, among other outlets.
Track Listing
Acknowledgments
Note on Text
What Is Past Is Prologue
1. The Spell Is Cast
2. Home Cooking
3. Finding the Groove
4. The Means of Survival
5. The Feminine Mystique
6. Video (Almost) Killed the R&B Star
7. Radio Silence
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.03.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | 33 1/3 |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 121 x 165 mm |
| Gewicht | 132 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5013-3650-9 / 1501336509 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-3650-8 / 9781501336508 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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