Aretha Franklin is amazing!
May 25th, 2010
by Clara Fischer · May 21, 2010
When I think of music’s–or specifically singing’s–potential for liberation, one
Aretha Franklin
voice immediately springs to mind: the earth-shattering, shiver-inducing, bone-chilling instrument possessed by Aretha Franklin. Aretha’s amazing talent is intimately linked for me with freedom, not only because of her own, very real struggle to express herself as a black woman artist, but also because of her tremendous capacity for instilling a sense of transcendence in her audience. As a listener, one is taken on a journey …Read More on the Ms. magazine blog:
http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2010/05/21/ode-to-aretha-or-reconnecting-women-and-singing/
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