{"product_id":"fantasies-of-nina-simone-hardcover","title":"Fantasies of Nina Simone - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJordan Alexander Stein\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince her death in 2003, Nina Simone has been the subject of an astonishing number of rereleased, remastered, and remixed albums and compilations as well as biographies, films, viral memes, samples, and soundtracks. In \u003ci\u003eFantasies of Nina Simone\u003c\/i\u003e, Jordan Alexander Stein uses an archive of Simone's performances, images, and writings to examine the space between our collective and individual fantasies about Simone the performer, civil rights activist, and icon, and her own fantasies about herself. Stein outlines how Simone gave voice to personal fantasies through releasing dozens of covers of her white male contemporaries. With her covers of George Harrison, the Bee Gees, Bob Dylan, and others, Simone explored and claimed the power and perspective that come with race and gender privilege. Looking at examples from Simone's four-decade genre-bending career--from songbook standards, jazz, and pop to folk, junkanoo, and reggae--and at her work's many uptakes and afterlives, Stein mobilizes the psychoanalytic concept of fantasy to build a black feminist history with and for this multifaceted performing artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJordan Alexander Stein is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Fordham University and author of \u003ci\u003eWhen Novels Were Books\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAvidly Reads Theory\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 27, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51774604837152,"sku":"9781478026471","price":174.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/54af42d88a49b13e5d7ae2df37831ebd.webp?v=1780451968","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/fantasies-of-nina-simone-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}