{"product_id":"from-blues-to-beyonce-9781438496498","title":"From Blues to Beyoncé","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores how Black women have continually used sound to convey stories and forge community across generations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Blues to Beyoncé\u003c\/i\u003e amplifies Black women''s ongoing public assertions of resistance, agency, and hope across different media from the nineteenth century to today. By examining recordings, music videos, autobiographical writings, and speeches, Alexis McGee explores how figures such as Ida B. Wells, Billie Holiday, Ruth Brown, Queen Latifah, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Janelle Monáe, and more mobilize sound to challenge antiBlack discourses and extend social justice pedagogies. Building on contemporary Black feminist interventions in sound studies and sonic rhetorics, \u003ci\u003eFrom Blues to Beyoncé\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how Black women''s sonic acts transmit meaning and knowledge within, between, and across generations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039816417623,"sku":"9781438496498","price":65.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-blues-to-beyonce-9781438496498","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}