Black women and music : more than the blues / edited by Eileen M. Hayes and Linda F. Williams ; foreword by Ingrid Monson.
| Other author | Hayes, Eileen M., editor. |
| Other author | Williams, Linda F. (Linda Faye), 1952- editor. |
| Other author | Monson, Ingrid T. (Ingrid Tolia), writer of foreword. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, ©2007. |
| Description | x, 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | African American music in global perspective African American music in global perspective. ^A714516 |
| Contents | Foreword / Ingrid Monson -- New perspectives in studies of black women and music / Eileen M. Hayes -- Part I. Having her say: power and complication in popular music. Hip-hip soul divas and rap music: critiquing the love that hate produced / Gwendolyn Pough -- Black women electric guitarists and authenticity in the blues / Maria V. Johnson -- Langston Hughes and the black female gospel voice in the American musical / Charles I. Nero -- Part II. When and where she enters: black women in unsung places. That text, that timbre: introducing gospel announcer Edna Tatum / Deborah Smith Pollard -- Black women, jazz, and feminism / Linda F. Williams -- Women of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians: four narratives / Nanette de Jong -- Black women and "women's music" / Eileen M. Hayes -- Part III. Revisiting musical herstories. Black women in art music / Teresa L. Reed -- Leontyne Price: prima donna assoluta / Elizabeth Amelia Hadley -- Harriet Gibbs Marshall and three musical spectacles / Sarah Schmalenberger. |
| Abstract | This collection is the first interdisciplinary volume to examine black women's negotiation of race and gender in African American music. Contributors address black women's activity in musical arenas that pre- and postdate the emergence of the vaudeville blues singers of the 1920s. Throughout, the authors illustrate black women's advocacy of themselves as blacks and as women in music. Feminist? Black feminist? The editors take care to stress that each term warrants interrogation: "Black women can and have forged, often, but not always??and not everywhere the same across time??identities that are supple enough to accommodate a sense of female empowerment through 'musicking' in tandem with their sensitivities to black racial allegiances." Individual essays concern the experiences of black women in classical music and in contemporary blues, the history of black female gospel-inflected voices in the Broadway musical, and "hip-hop feminism" and its complications. Focusing on under-examined contexts, authors introduce readers to the work of a prominent gospel announcer, women's music festivals (predominantly lesbian), and to women's involvement in an early avant-garde black music collective. In contradistinction to a compilation of biographies, this volume critically illuminates themes of black authenticity, sexual politics, access, racial uplift through music, and the challenges of writing (black) feminist biography. |
| Local note | Little-348171--305131054511T |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2006022586 |
| ISBN | 9780252031847 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0252031849 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780252074264 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0252074262 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML82 .A37 2007 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |