EAN: 9780674052819

LINER NOTES FOR THE REVOLUTION - THE INTELLECTU...

An award-winning Black feminist music critic takes us on an epic journey through radical sound
from Bessie Smith to Beyonce. 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 Beyonce 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 Cecile 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.

Aktuelle Preise zur EAN 9780674052819

Produktinformationen zur 9780674052819