Blues Legacies And Black Feminism
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Blues Legacies And Black Feminism
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Author : Angela Y. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-10-05
Blues Legacies And Black Feminism written by Angela Y. Davis and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-05 with Social Science categories.
From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday as powerful articulations of an alternative consciousness profoundly at odds with mainstream American culture. The works of Rainey, Smith, and Holiday have been largely misunderstood by critics. Overlooked, Davis shows, has been the way their candor and bravado laid the groundwork for an aesthetic that allowed for the celebration of social, moral, and sexual values outside the constraints imposed by middle-class respectability. Through meticulous transcriptions of all the extant lyrics of Rainey and Smith−published here in their entirety for the first time−Davis demonstrates how the roots of the blues extend beyond a musical tradition to serve as a conciousness-raising vehicle for American social memory. A stunning, indispensable contribution to American history, as boldly insightful as the women Davis praises, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism is a triumph.
Black Pearls
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Author : Daphne Duval Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 1988
Black Pearls written by Daphne Duval Harrison and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Some singers included in this book are Sippie Wallace, Victoria Spivey, Edith Wilson, and Alberta Hunter.
Good Booty
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Author : Ann Powers
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2017-08-15
Good Booty written by Ann Powers and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-15 with History categories.
NPR Best Books of 2017 In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR’s acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race. In Good Booty, Ann Powers explores how popular music became America’s primary erotic art form. Powers takes us from nineteenth-century New Orleans through dance-crazed Jazz Age New York to the teen scream years of mid-twentieth century rock-and-roll to the cutting-edge adventures of today’s web-based pop stars. Drawing on her deep knowledge and insights on gender and sexuality, Powers recounts stories of forbidden lovers, wild shimmy-shakers, orgasmic gospel singers, countercultural perverts, soft-rock sensitivos, punk Puritans, and the cyborg known as Britney Spears to illuminate how eroticism—not merely sex, but love, bodily freedom, and liberating joy—became entwined within the rhythms and melodies of American song. This cohesion, she reveals, touches the heart of America's anxieties and hopes about race, feminism, marriage, youth, and freedom. In a survey that spans more than a century of music, Powers both heralds little known artists such as Florence Mills, a contemporary of Josephine Baker, and gospel queen Dorothy Love Coates, and sheds new light on artists we think we know well, from the Beatles and Jim Morrison to Madonna and Beyoncé. In telling the history of how American popular music and sexuality intersect—a magnum opus over two decades in the making—Powers offers new insights into our nation psyche and our soul.
Women Race Class
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Author : Angela Y. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-10-03
Women Race Class written by Angela Y. Davis and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-03 with History categories.
Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suffrage movements, Davis examines the racism and class prejudice inherent in so much of white feminism, and in doing so brings to light new pioneering heroines, from field slaves to mill workers, who fought back and refused to accept the lives into which they were born. 'The power of her historical insights and the sweetness of her dream cannot be denied' The New York Times
Lady Sings The Blues
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Author : Billie Holiday
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2011-03-02
Lady Sings The Blues written by Billie Holiday and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Perfect for fans of The United States vs. Billie Holiday, this is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred memoir of the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation—a fiftieth-anniversary edition updated with stunning new photos, a revised discography, and an insightful foreword by music writer David Ritz Taking the reader on a fast-moving journey from Billie Holiday’s rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood (where she ran errands at a whorehouse in exchange for the chance to listen to Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith albums), to her emergence on Harlem’s club scene, to sold-out performances with the Count Basie Orchestra and with Artie Shaw and his band, this revelatory memoir is notable for its trenchant observations on the racism that darkened Billie’s life and the heroin addiction that ended it too soon. We are with her during the mesmerizing debut of “Strange Fruit”; with her as she rubs shoulders with the biggest movie stars and musicians of the day (Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Clark Gable, Benny Goodman, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and more); and with her through the scrapes with Jim Crow, spats with Sarah Vaughan, ignominious jailings, and tragic decline. All of this is told in Holiday’s tart, streetwise style and hip patois that makes it read as if it were written yesterday.
The Lemonade Reader
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Author : Kinitra D. Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-05-24
The Lemonade Reader written by Kinitra D. Brooks and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-24 with Social Science categories.
The Lemonade Reader is an interdisciplinary collection that explores the nuances of Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album, Lemonade. The essays and editorials present fresh, cutting-edge scholarship fueled by contemporary thoughts on film, material culture, religion, and black feminism. Envisioned as an educational tool to support and guide discussions of the visual album at postgraduate and undergraduate levels, The Lemonade Reader critiques Lemonade’s multiple Afrodiasporic influences, visual aesthetics, narrative arc of grief and healing, and ethnomusicological reach. The essays, written by both scholars and popular bloggers, reflects a broad yet uniquely specific black feminist investigation into constructions of race, gender, spirituality, and southern identity. The Lemonade Reader gathers a newer generation of black feminist scholars to engage in intellectual discourse and confront the emotional labor around the Lemonade phenomena. It is the premiere source for examining Lemonade, a text that will continue to have a lasting impact on black women’s studies and popular culture.
Mother Of The Blues
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Author : Sandra R. Lieb
language : en
Publisher: [Amherst] : University of Massachusetts Press
Release Date : 1981
Mother Of The Blues written by Sandra R. Lieb and has been published by [Amherst] : University of Massachusetts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Briefly portrays the life of the influential blues singer, Ma Rainey, discusses the development of her music, and analyzes the theme of love in her music.
Women Culture Politics
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Author : Angela Y. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-06-22
Women Culture Politics written by Angela Y. Davis and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-22 with Social Science categories.
A collection of speeches and writings by political activist Angela Davis which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they are concerned with the struggle for racial, sexual, and economic equality.
Langston Hughes And The Blues
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Author : Steven C. Tracy
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2024-05-07
Langston Hughes And The Blues written by Steven C. Tracy and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
The shades and structures of the blues had an immense impact on the poetry of Langston Hughes. Steven C. Tracy provides a cultural context for Hughes’s work while revealing how Hughes mined Black oral and literary traditions to create his poetry. Comparing Hughes’s poems to blues texts, Tracy reveals how Hughes’s experimental forms reflect the poetics, structures, rhythms, and musical techniques of the music. Tracy also offers a discography of recordings by the artists--Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and others--who most influenced the poet.
Stormy Weather
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Author : Linda Dahl
language : en
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Release Date : 1989
Stormy Weather written by Linda Dahl and has been published by Hal Leonard Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Music categories.
Traces the impact of women on the development of jazz and profiles the careers of influential female jazz musicians and singers