10.2

R&B, Motown, and the Civil Rights Movement

Readings

Ruth Feldstein, “‘More Than Just a Jazz Singer’: Nina Simone’s Border Crossings,” in How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 84-112.
Jack Hamilton, Just Around Midnight, 121-168.

Video

Nina Simone, “Mississippi Goddamn” (1963)

Music