‘Rather Than Her Biography’: Listening to Nina Simone’s Diary
‘Rather Than Her Biography’: Listening to Nina Simone’s Diary
“If we can draw out the emphasis on the female vocalist’s art, rather than her biographies,” critic Hortense Spillers once wrote. “Then we gather from the singer that power and control maintain an ontological edge. Whatever luck or misfortune the Player has dealt her, she is, in the moment of performance, the primary subject of...