{"product_id":"black-women-and-music-9780252074264","title":"Black Women and Music","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAddresses 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBlack Women in Music\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"--\u003ci\u003eWomen and Music\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400478433623,"sku":"9780252074264","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-women-and-music-9780252074264","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}