http://calitreview.com/4410 Book reviews, essays, and author interviews. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:21:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://calitreview.com/4410/comment-page-1#comment-60714 John R. Guthrie Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:08:13 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=4410#comment-60714 Fine review,David Lida--one that evoked memories for this reader of Nina Simone in concert at Duke University ca 1970. She came on an hour late following a non-descript warm-up band. She radiated hostility, the epitome of an angry black woman whose anger seemed displaced toward that remarkably welcoming audience composed of 1970s university students. Even so, her renditions of her trademark pieces, the hauntingly lovely "I Loves You Porgy," as well as more strident yet intriguing, "The Black Freighter" and "Mississippi God Damn" are indelibly inscribed on my memory and worth the hassle of it all. Fine review,David Lida–one that evoked memories for this reader of Nina Simone in concert at Duke University ca 1970. She came on an hour late following a non-descript warm-up band. She radiated hostility, the epitome of an angry black woman whose anger seemed displaced toward that remarkably welcoming audience composed of 1970s university students. Even so, her renditions of her trademark pieces, the hauntingly lovely “I Loves You Porgy,” as well as more strident yet intriguing, “The Black Freighter” and “Mississippi God Damn” are indelibly inscribed on my memory and worth the hassle of it all.

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