MUSC 299: Jazz, Civil Rights, & Hip Hop


Nina Simone


  1. Lyrics

2. Articles

- The Fierce Courage of Nina Simone, by Adam Shatz, The New York Review of Books - Link

- A Raised Voice: How Nina Simone turned the movement into music, by Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker - Link

- Memoir in a Melody: The Outrage in Nina Simone’s ‘Mississippi Goddam’, by Matt Staggs for Signature, 2013 - Link

- Nina Simone: Her Art and Life in 33 Songs, by Pitchfork - Link

- Nina Simone’s Uncompromising, Fearless Wardrobe, by Allison P. Davis for The Cut - Link

- What Happened, Miss Simone? — Documentary Review by Brian Tallerico for RogerEbert.com - Link

- Rhythm, Rage, and Restraint: The Music of Nina Simone and John Coltrane on the Birmingham Bombing - An Honors Paper for the Department of Africana Studies by Rami Toubia Stucky, Bowdoin College, 2013 - Link