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Everybody’s Protest Song: Music as Social Protest in the Performances of Marian Anderson and Billie Holiday
Ist Teil von
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2008-01, Vol.33 (2), p.443-448
Ort / Verlag
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
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Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Hobson discusses how the black women's singing instigated a social protest. The figure of the black woman vocalist is deeply ingrained in American music culture; she is both hypervisible and hyperaudible. As one notes, the black woman's voice is quintessential American voice. But because it develops alongside and not fully within the nation, it maintains a space for critique and protest. Nonetheless, this marginality, even within the context of its hyperaudibility, reinforces black women's voicelessness in cultural discourses on American music heritage and, ironically, in political narratives, since black women are often presented singing in service of someone else rather than for themselves.