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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism

Author : Angela Y. Davis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307574442

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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Y. Davis Pdf

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

Author : Daphne Duval Harrison
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Music
ISBN : 0813512808

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Black Pearls by Daphne Duval Harrison Pdf

Some singers included in this book are Sippie Wallace, Victoria Spivey, Edith Wilson, and Alberta Hunter.

Women, Race, & Class

Author : Angela Y. Davis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307798497

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Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis Pdf

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women. “Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard.”—The New York Times Angela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably hampered any collective ambitions. While Black women were aided by some activists like Sarah and Angelina Grimke and the suffrage cause found unwavering support in Frederick Douglass, many women played on the fears of white supremacists for political gain rather than take an intersectional approach to liberation. Here, Davis not only contextualizes the legacy and pitfalls of civil and women’s rights activists, but also discusses Communist women, the murder of Emmitt Till, and Margaret Sanger’s racism. Davis shows readers how the inequalities between Black and white women influence the contemporary issues of rape, reproductive freedom, housework and child care in this bold and indispensable work.

Lady Sings the Blues

Author : Billie Holiday,William Dufty
Publisher : Crown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307786166

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Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday,William Dufty Pdf

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

Author : Kinitra D. Brooks,Kameelah L. Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429945977

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The Lemonade Reader by Kinitra D. Brooks,Kameelah L. Martin Pdf

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.

Good Booty

Author : Ann Powers
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780062463715

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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.

Feminist Freedom Warriors

Author : Chandra Talpade Mohanty,Linda Carty
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781608468980

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Feminist Freedom Warriors by Chandra Talpade Mohanty,Linda Carty Pdf

Born out of an engagement with anti-racist feminist struggles as women of color from the Global South, Feminist Freedom Warriors (FFW) is a project showcasing cross-generational histories of feminist activism addressing economic, anti-racist, social justice, and anti-capitalist issues across national borders. This feminist reader is a companion to the FFW video archive project that is currently available online. Using text and images, the book presents short narratives from the women featured in the FFW project and illustrates the intersecting struggles for justice in the fight against oppression. These are stories of sister-comrades, whose ideas, words, actions, and visions of economic and social justice continue to inspire a new generation of women activists.

Mother of the Blues

Author : Sandra R. Lieb
Publisher : [Amherst] : University of Massachusetts Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : African American singers
ISBN : UOM:39015007948188

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Mother of the Blues by Sandra R. Lieb Pdf

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

Author : Angela Y. Davis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307798503

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Women, Culture & Politics by Angela Y. Davis Pdf

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.

Just My Soul Responding

Author : Brian Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135370039

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Brian Ward is Lecturer in American History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne .; This book is intended for american studies, American history postwar social and cultural history, political history, Black history, Race and Ethnic studies and Cultural studies together with the general trade music.

Beyoncé in Formation

Author : Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477318393

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Beyoncé in Formation by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley Pdf

Making headlines when it was launched in 2015, Omise’eke Tinsley’s undergraduate course “Beyoncé Feminism, Rihanna Womanism” has inspired students from all walks of life. In Beyoncé in Formation, Tinsley now takes her rich observations beyond the classroom, using the blockbuster album and video Lemonade as a soundtrack for vital new-millennium narratives. Woven with candid observations about her life as a feminist scholar of African studies and a cisgender femme married to a trans spouse, Tinsley’s “Femme-onade” mixtape explores myriad facets of black women’s sexuality and gender. Turning to Beyoncé’s “Don’t Hurt Yourself,” Tinsley assesses black feminist critiques of marriage and then considers the models of motherhood offered in “Daddy Lessons,” interspersing these passages with memories from Tinsley’s multiracial family history. Her chapters on nontraditional bonds culminate in a discussion of contemporary LGBT politics through the lens of the internet-breaking video “Formation,” underscoring why Beyoncé’s black femme-inism isn’t only for ciswomen. From pleasure politics and the struggle for black women’s reproductive justice to the subtext of blues and country music traditions, the landscape in this tour is populated by activists and artists (including Loretta Lynn) and infused with vibrant interpretations of Queen Bey’s provocative, peerless imagery and lyrics. In the tradition of Roxanne Gay’s Bad Feminist and Jill Lepore’s best-selling cultural histories, Beyoncé in Formation is the work of a daring intellectual who is poised to spark a new conversation about freedom and identity in America.

Black Feminist Thought

Author : Patricia Hill Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135960131

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In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. The result is a superbly crafted book that provides the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought.

Langston Hughes & the Blues

Author : Steven Carl Tracy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : AFRICAN AMERICANS--FOLKLORE.
ISBN : 0252069854

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Langston Hughes & the Blues by Steven Carl Tracy Pdf

"Drawing on a deep understanding of the shades and structures of the blues, Steven C. Tracy elucidates the vital relationship between this musical form and the art of Langston Hughes, preeminent poet of the Harlem Renaissance. Tracy provides a cultural context for the poet's work and shows how Hughes mined African-American oral and literary traditions to create his blues-inspired poetry. Through a detailed comparison of Hughes's poems to blues texts, Tracy demonstrates how the poetics, structures, rhythms, and musical techniques of the blues are reflected in Hughes's experimental forms. The volume also includes a discography of recordings by the blues artists--Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and others-who most influenced Hughes, updated in a new introduction by the author."

What the Music Said

Author : Mark Anthony Neal
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 041592071X

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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Black Women and Music

Author : Eileen M. Hayes,Linda Faye Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : African American women
ISBN : UOM:39015067680507

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Black Women and Music by Eileen M. Hayes,Linda Faye Williams Pdf

Features a collection of essays that detail black women's experiences in various forms of music and details such topics as black authenticity, sexual politics, access, racial uplift through music, and the challenges of writing black feminist biographies.