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

"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...

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Main Author: Brooks, Daphne (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.
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Table of Contents:
  • SIDE A. Toward a black feminist intellectual tradition in sound
  • "Sister, can you line it out?": Zora Neale Hurston notes the sound
  • Blues feminist lingua franca: Rosetta Reitz rewrites the record
  • Thrice militant music criticism: Ellen Willis & Lorraine Hansberry's What might be
  • SIDE B. Not fade away: looking after Geeshie & Elvie / L.V.
  • "If you should lose me": of trunks & record shops & black girl ephemera
  • "See my face from the other side": catching up with Geeshie and L.V.
  • "Slow fade to black": black women archivists remix the sounds
  • Epilogue: Going to the territory.