Zadie Smith in Cambridge and elsewhere - between in the middle of the 1990's and the 2010's
from Feel Free: Essays, pages 101–102, 104–105:
It was the kind of college gathering where I kept sneaking Blackstreet and Aaliyah albums into the CD drawer, and friends kept replacing them with other things. And then there she was, suddenly: a piercing sound, a sort of wailing – a white woman, wailing, picking out notes in a non-sequence. Out of tune – or out of anything I understood at the time as ‘tune’. I picked up the CD cover and frowned at it: a skinny … more >>
Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays (2018), p. 101–102, 104–105. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1521117152442 accessed: 16 October, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
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songs
written by Joni Mitchell |
performed by Joni Mitchell |
Experience Information
Date/Time | between in the middle of the 1990's and the 2010's |
Medium | playback |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors, solitary |
Notes
Two experiences of listening to Joni Mitchell's music are included here: Smith's first encounter with her songs as a student in Cambridge in the mid-1990s, and her experience of listening to Mitchell in the 2010s.