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Black Women and Music: More Than the Blues
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Description for Black Women and Music: More Than the Blues
Paperback. Addresses black women's negotiation of race and gender in African American music. This work explores the ways African American women musicians of the twentieth century have negotiated feminisms, engaged in social activism, and worked within - or sometimes independent of - a male-dominated music industry. Editor(s): Hayes, Eileen M.; Williams, Linda F. Series: African Amer Music in Global Perspective. Num Pages: 280 pages, 12 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGH; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 27. Weight in Grams: 404.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
African Amer Music in Global Perspective
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252074264
SKU
V9780252074264
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About Hayes
Eileen M. Hayes is an associate professor of music and the chair of the division of music history, theory, and ethnomusicology at the University of North Texas. Linda F. Williams is an independent scholar and jazz saxophonist.
Reviews for Black Women and Music: More Than the Blues
"Black Women in Music provides valuable and lucid evidence for the fact that music making has historically been and continues to be an arena in which black American women explore and create identities that consider the mutually constitutive, embodied, and imagined categories of race, gender, class, generation, and sexuality."
Women and Music "In a foreward, Ingrid Monson illustrates the need for ... Read more
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