{"product_id":"liner-notes-for-the-revolution-9780674292208","title":"Liner Notes for the Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiner Notes for the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e offers a startling new perspective on Black women musicians from Bessie Smith to Beyoncé. Informed by the overlooked contributions of women who wrote about the blues, rock, and pop, Daphne A. Brooks argues that acclaimed entertainers have also been radical intellectuals, challenging the culture industry to catch up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrooks traces all kinds of lines, finding unexpected points of connection…inviting voices to talk to one another, seeing what different perspectives can offer, opening up new ways of looking and listening by tracing lineages and calling for more space. * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eDaphne Brooks has written a gloriously polyphonic book. Moving through the tumult of the twentieth century and the millennium, she scores, archives, and curates the history of Black woman musicians and their radical modernities, all created in a culture that presumed they had no voices or minds. What did they do to be so Black, brilliant, and blue? Listen. And read on. -- Margo Jefferson, author of the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning \u003ci\u003eNegroland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrooks takes on a wide-ranging study of Black female artists, from elders like Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters to Beyoncé and Janelle Monáe. But she reaches far beyond music, exploring writers like Zora Neale Hurston and Pauline Hopkins…\u003ci\u003eLiner Notes\u003c\/i\u003e is a secret history…connecting the sonic worlds of Black female mythmakers and truth-tellers. -- Rob Sheffield * Rolling Stone *\u003cbr\u003eBrooks moves deftly between eras, from early-twentieth-century blues and vaudeville to \u003ci\u003eLemonade\u003c\/i\u003e-era Beyoncé…In articulating the intellectual labor of so many Black women artists—unknown, ‘undertheorized,’ or both—she implicitly acknowledges those who, for whatever reason, \u003ci\u003edidn’t\u003c\/i\u003e make it into the capital-A archive, but whose contributions surround us nonetheless…\u003ci\u003eLiner Notes\u003c\/i\u003e is a loud warning shot: seeing Black women everywhere is not the same as \u003ci\u003eseeing\u003c\/i\u003e Black women. -- Rawiya Kameir * Bookforum *\u003cbr\u003eTakes on the weighty task of sifting through more than a century’s worth of music history, cultural criticism and long forgotten archives to explore the revolutionary practices of Black women musicians…Brooks is effusive in her belief that not only did these women exist in spaces previously thought to be exclusively white, she suggests their impact can be felt in all spheres of music today. -- Stephanie Phillips * The Wire *\u003cbr\u003eA passionate book, written with a vigorous confidence…Brooks’s command of history and her reading are broad and deep…Instinct says there is a large audience that is not only sympathetic to what she has to say but would be charged up by Brooks’s ideas, that would hear in the music what Brooks hears. -- George Grella * Brooklyn Rail *\u003cbr\u003eEffortlessly poetic, deeply historical, and insistently imaginative, \u003ci\u003eLiner Notes for the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e doesn’t merely give voice to unheeded and crucial innovators; it offers a new method for approaching music history itself. -- Ann Powers, author of \u003ci\u003eGood Booty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaphne Brooks’s brilliant evocation of what gets lost when women of color don’t speak, let alone sing, is one of the most moving testaments to the power of silence, and what breaking that silence means, that I have ever read. Vivid, joyful, and heartbreaking in its passionate understanding of soul in all its manifestations, \u003ci\u003eLiner Notes for the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e is itself a new kind of music: propulsive, witty, wise, and true. -- Hilton Als, author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Girls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Daphne Brooks, black feminist sound is sensuous thought. In \u003ci\u003eLiner Notes for the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, she feels and shows and says this with such devotion, such critical and emotional intelligence, such archival commitment and dexterity, and such urgent social aspiration that listening itself is new again. -- Fred Moten, author of \u003ci\u003eAll That Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiner Notes for the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking and breathtaking volume from one of our leading cultural historians that will forever change the way we write and think about American culture. Daphne Brooks insists upon the genius of Black women music-makers, listeners, and critics. This transformative work of intellectual generosity is sure to join the ranks of classic works such as Amiri Baraka’s \u003ci\u003eBlues People\u003c\/i\u003e and Greil Marcus’s \u003ci\u003eLipstick Traces\u003c\/i\u003e. -- Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of \u003ci\u003eHarlem Nocturne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt went so many unexpected places and it fed me. I was especially drawn to the under-told stories of trailblazing women who were the collectors, archivists, and storytellers. She’s made what has been in the shadows legible. It’s full of stories of creative resistance and persistence. Perfect for this moment. * Los Angeles Times *\u003cbr\u003eA sweeping survey of Black women’s contributions to music history and a rigorous mapping of their lives as intellectuals. From Bessie Smith to Beyoncé…A positively revolutionary ‘critical re-attunement.’ * Pitchfork *\u003cbr\u003eA groundbreaking study that is necessary reading for scholars of Black studies, women’s studies, sound studies, and performance studies. The methods and arguments put forth by Brooks will undoubtedly inspire the growth of Black feminist archival scholarship dedicated to unearthing the stories of many more sidelined, yet-to-be-recognized culture makers. -- Shanice Wolters * Women and Music *\u003cbr\u003eThrough storytelling, analysis, and archival research, \u003ci\u003eLiner Notes for the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e spans generations of Black women as musical pioneers, including Ma Rainey, Billie Holiday, and Tina Turner, and calls attention to their resounding influence. -- Jaelani Turner-Williams * Teen Vogue *\u003cbr\u003eEnlightening…a fresh perspective on more than a century’s worth of Black female musicians…Brooks combines an impressive archive of musical works and the artists’ own words to convincingly reveal how they each impacted popular culture. Music aficionados should take note. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eA spirited study of how Black women musicians and writers have informed each other despite gatekeepers’ neglect and dismissals…A sui generis and essential work on Black music culture destined to launch future investigations. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003eA lyrical masterpiece that takes readers on an exhilarating journey through a century of Black sound from Bessie Smith to Beyoncé…Brooks’ liner notes are a ‘requiem’ for the oversight of Black women musicians and their intellectual resonance. * New Books Network *\u003cbr\u003eAn impressive exploration of Black women’s intellectuality in music. -- Jordannah Elizabeth * Amsterdam News *\u003cbr\u003eRich with insights…A rigorous and sweeping counter-history of American pop. -- Danielle A. 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