Divided soul the life of marvin gaye
Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye
Don’t get me erroneous. I give Ritz a lot of credit for this work. This was heavily researched and there was a lot of in depth interviews with Marvin Gaye’s close friends and family. The interviewees, including Marvin, himself, are quoted heavily. With very rare exception, the quotes work and fit seamlessly into the story.
And that story was fantastic. Tragic, but fantastic. The way Ritz was able to relate Marvin’s lyrics to his life was superb . It is difficult to read this book without emoting. And very complicated to read it and not judge the people closest to Gaye—personally, I find it very challenging, despite knowing that times and life were much different back then, to not judge Marvin’s mother. If thi
Divided Soul: The Being of Marvin Gaye
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Divided soul: the animation of Marvin Gaye.
Melissa A. Weber
Journal of Popular Music Studies, 2021
In The Essence of Soul: Inky Music and Resilience Since the 1960s, Emily J. Lordi reminds us that soul has many directives: to "signify the special resilience black people had earned by surviving the historical and daily trials of white supremacy" (5); to represent "the musical techniques or practices through which artists enacted mind ethos" (11); and, in its most familiar use, to refer to intellectual and artistic productions of Black Americans during the spirit or post-soul song movements. Lordi's modern book, however, calls for and provides a more expansive discourse of heart, which reveals meanings that have traditionally been overlooked, underrepresented, or disregarded. The Meaning of Spirit addresses such slights of soul scholarship not only by analyzing Black American musicians from the late 1960s and early 1970s (and some more recent), but also by positioning soul not as a "discrete thing" but rather "a habit of thinking, a logic" (8). To reach
Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye
Title: Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye
Author: David Ritz
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Publication Year: 2003
ISBN-10: 140235396
In this intimate biography of the Prince of Soul, David Ritz provides a candid look at a celestial body and a friend. Ritz had been collaborating with Gaye on his story for several years before the singer's tragic death, and had conducted a series of extraordinary interviews in which Gaye discussed his deepest secrets. Drawing from these interviews, Gaye's life is recounted in his own words and the words of those who knew him best: his family, friends, and colleagues. What emerges is a full-scale portrait of a charming but tortured artist, a brilliant singer with a divided heart. [line break] Here is Marvin's story from his early years in the slums of Washington, D.C., to is rise to the top of the Motown industry, his fall from grace, his comeback, and finally his sudden, shocking end at the hands of his own father. But it is also the story of his glorious tune, and the music of ebony America over the past fifty years, from gospel to doo-wop to soul to funk. The result is an epic tale whos