Black women and music
Subtitle: more than the blues
By: edited by Eileen M. Hayes and Linda F. Williams ; foreword by Ingrid Monson
Contributors: Hayes, Eileen M; Williams, Linda F. 1952-
Series: African American music in global perspective
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780252031847; 9780252074264
Subjects: African American women -- Music -- History and criticism; African American women musicians
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: New perspectives in studies of black women and music / Eileen M. Hayes; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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