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03555aam a22003978i 4500 001 230C5172BB6011EA94CB452497128E48 003 SILO 005 20200701010008 008 191029s2020 ilu b 001 0aeng 010 $a 2019049762 020 $a 0252084942 020 $a 9780252084942 (softcover) 020 $a 0252043073 020 $a 9780252043079 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $e rda $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a ML421.L3715 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a LaSalle, Denise, $e author. 245 10 $a Always the queen : $b the Denise LaSalle story / $c Denise LaSalle with David Whiteis. 260 $a Urbana : $b University of Illinois Press, $c 2020. 263 $a 2004 300 $a 234 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 0 $a Music in American life 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "This is the autobiography of soul and blues singer Denise LaSalle "as told to" the blues scholar David Whiteis. The book documents Ms. LaSalle's move from rural Mississippi to Chicago as a teenager, where she eventually established herself as a successful songwriter and performer in gospel and blues. She also founded several record labels and demonstrated considerable savvy as a businesswoman. In the early 1980s, realizing that her brand of emotionally resonant soul music had lost ground in the marketplace to newer forms - first disco, and then rap/hip-hop - Ms. LaSalle began to write songs and perform in the modern-day blues genre usually referred to as "soul-blues" (a term she takes credit for inventing) or "southern soul." Her songs in this genre conveyed a bold, often provocative message of womanly assertiveness and pride, including explicitly drawn demands for both sexual and financial satisfaction, that both invoked and modernized the classic blueswoman's stance of power and independence, a trope that links her directly to such legendary blues singers as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Ida Cox. Armed with this new material but still capable of pleasing long-time fans with renditions of her earlier hits, Ms. LaSalle became one of the dominant figures on the "southern soul"/"soul-blues" circuit, which was actually a newly revitalized incarnation of the old "chitlin' circuit," the network of predominantly African-American performance venues that crisscrossed the south and also extended into some northern and western urban strongholds (tracing, more or less, the geographic pattern of the early/mid-20th Century Great Migration). She remains one of the most beloved figures on that circuit, admired by listeners and fellow artists alike for her legacy and her ongoing dedication to her music and fans. LaSalle's story thus complements the overall story of blues and soul music as the cultural expression of a diasporan people who reinvented themselves to adjust to Northern life while retaining many of the cultural, religious, and social traditions with which they had grown up in the South"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a LaSalle, Denise. 650 0 $a Singers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Blues musicians $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Soul musicians $z United States $v Biography. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Whiteis, David, $e author. 776 08 $i Print version: $a LaSalle, Denise. $t Always the queen $d Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2020. $z 9780252043079 $w (DLC) 2019049761 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200701010357.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=230C5172BB6011EA94CB452497128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search