Liner notes for the revolution : the intellectual life of black feminist sound

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Label

Liner notes for the revolution : the intellectual life of black feminist sound

Title remainder

the intellectual life of black feminist sound

Statement of responsibility

Daphne A. Brooks

Creator

• Brooks, Daphne

Author

• Brooks, Daphne

Subject

• African American women -- Music | History and criticism
• African American feminists
• Musical criticism -- United States -- History
• African American women musicians
• African American women -- Intellectual life

Language

eng

Summary

"Daphne A. Brooks explores more than a century of music archives to examine the critics, collectors, and listeners who have determined perceptions of African American women on stage and in the recording studio. Liner Notes for the Revolution offers a startling new perspective on these acclaimed figures-a perspective informed by the overlooked contributions of other black women concerned with the work of their musical peers. Zora Neale Hurston appears as a sound archivist and a performer, Lorraine Hansberry as a queer black feminist critic of modern culture, and Pauline Hopkins as America's first black female cultural intellectual. Brooks tackles the complicated racial politics of blues music recording, collecting, and rock and roll music criticism. She makes lyrical forays into the blues pioneers Bessie Smith and Mamie Smith, as well as fans who became critics, like the record-label entrepreneur and writer Rosetta Reitz. In the twenty-first century, pop superstar Janelle Monae's liner notes are recognized for their innovations, while celebrated singers Cecile McLorin Salvant, Rhiannon Giddens, and Valerie June take their place as serious cultural historians. Above all, Liner Notes for the Revolution reads black female musicians and entertainers as intellectuals. At stake is the question of who gets to tell the story of black women in popular music and how"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

MH/DLC

Dewey number

780.82/0973

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

ML3556

LC item number

.B74 2021

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography