Winners have yet to be announced : a song for Donny Hathaway: poems / by Ed Pavlić.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pavlic, Edward M. (Edward Michael)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hathaway, Donny.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

189 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2008]

Summary:

This multileveled collection of prose poems about seventies soul singer Donny Hathaway presents a complex view of a gifted artist through imagined conversations and interviews that convey the voices, surroundings, and clashing dimensions of Hathaway's life.

Among mainstream audiences Hathaway is perhaps best known either as the syrupy voice singing with Roberta Flack in "Where Is the Love" or for his shocking death-he was found dead beneath the open thirteenth-story window of his New York hotel room in 1979 at the age of thirty-three. Less well known are the depth of his classical and gospel training, his wide-ranging intellectual interests, and the respect his musical knowledge, talent, and versatility commanded from collaborators like Curtis Mayfield and Aretha Franklin.

Meanwhile, among listeners with special affinity for soul music of the seventies, even almost thirty years after his death, no voice burns with the intensity of Hathaway's own in the great solo ballads and freedom songs such as "A Song for You," "Giving Up," "Someday We'll All Be Free," and "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black."

Contents:

Interview: Cause of Death: A Sound or Something Like It: February 15, 1979: Chicago, IL 3

Listening Notes: Mercy Medical Psychiatric: January 13, 1973: Chicago, IL 35

Interview: "Put Your Hand in the Hand": January 30, 1979: St. Louis, MO 51

Listening Notes: After Shock Therapy: Mercy Medical Psychiatric: November 7, 1973: Chicago, IL 55

"A Song for You": A Conversation: October 26, 1975: Chicago, IL 65

Interview: Graveyard Shift: Carr Square Projects: July 20, 1980: St. Louis, MO 72

Interview: Everything Is Everything: "I hear voices I see people...": February 5, 1979: Brooklyn, NY 85

Listening Notes: "Fine and Mellow": April 1, 1955: St. Louis, MO 91

Interview: Front Porch: Carr Square: January 25, 1979: St. Louis, MO 109

Listening Notes: "yesterday suddenly suddenly yesterday": Letter to the Shadow Hanging Over Me: Mercy Medical Psychiatric: February 27, 1973: Chicago, IL 114

Interview: "Sack Full of Dreams": June 6, 1979: Los Angeles, CA 127

Interview: "I Know I've Been Changed": February 8, 1979: Brooklyn, NY 135

Interview: "Little Girl, Hello": February 29, 1979: Chicago, IL 158

Mr. Soul's Listening Notes: "You Are My Heaven": Lakefront Hallucination: January 13, 1979: 10:45 pm: Essex House Hotel, Manhattan 175

Breaking News: Washington Post, January 15, 1979: Song Writer, Singer, Falls to Death in NY 184.

ISBN:

9780820330976

0820330973

OCLC:

181602041