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    25. With “her propulsive [Carnegie Hall] performance, Simone brings her listeners close(r) to the voice and obstinacy coursing through her song; she delivers the sonic equivalent of AfricanAmericans’ [sic] utter discontent living under quotidian Jim Crow subjugation—dodging and countenancing hound dogs, imprisonment, and police brutality. At the same time, it is precisely this musical testimony of a visceral open wound that Simone seeks to expose, to articulate, to sing into contestation here” (Brooks 2011, 184). See “Nina Simone: Mississippi Goddam (Live in New York/Mono),” YouTube video, posted by “Gordon Paul II,” December 15, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scGVEwaUsdg.


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