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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.

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"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 this book by discussing how students in a jazz class she taught failed to volunteer the name of any woman active in jazz, until that omission was called to their attention. The ten chapters seek a remedy. . . . Recommended."--Choice

Black Women and Music

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    A Paperback / softback by Eileen M. Hayes, Linda F. Williams, Ingrid Monson

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      Publisher: University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 16/03/2007
      ISBN13: 9780252074264, 978-0252074264
      ISBN10: 0252074262

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review

      "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 this book by discussing how students in a jazz class she taught failed to volunteer the name of any woman active in jazz, until that omission was called to their attention. The ten chapters seek a remedy. . . . Recommended."--Choice

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