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Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
Ort / Verlag
Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
An award-winning Black feminist music critic takes us on an
epic journey through radical sound from Bessie Smith to
Beyoncé. Daphne A. Brooks explores more than a century of
music archives to examine the critics, collectors, and listeners
who have determined perceptions of Black women on stage and in the
recording studio. How is it possible, she asks, that iconic artists
such as Aretha Franklin and Beyoncé exist simultaneously at the
center and on the fringe of the culture industry? 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 commentator. Brooks tackles the complicated racial
politics of blues music recording, song collecting, and rock and
roll 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 Cécile
McLorin Salvant, Rhiannon Giddens, and Valerie June take their
place as cultural historians. With an innovative perspective on the
story of Black women in popular music-and who should rightly tell
it- Liner Notes for the Revolution pioneers a long overdue
recognition and celebration of Black women musicians as radical
intellectuals.