Black Women and Music: More Than the Blues

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252074262
• ISBN13: 9780252074264
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.9" x 6.2"