Sing, Aretha, Sing!: Aretha Franklin,"Respect," and the Civil Rights Movement by Hanif Abdurraqib


Sing, Aretha, Sing!: Aretha Franklin,"Respect," and the Civil Rights Movement
Title : Sing, Aretha, Sing!: Aretha Franklin,"Respect," and the Civil Rights Movement
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ISBN : 9780374313456
Language : English
Format Type : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 40

This was good but I think it needed more back matter about Aretha’s life especially since the entire point of the page long author’s note was that she did so much. And we saw … almost none of it because one song was centered. Even the visual cues that her song moved from civil rights to modern protests is muddy. As is her getting the presidential medal of freedom which I only just barely caught. A good idea but the framing felt like a stretch on every level.