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more than the blues
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hayes, Eileen M. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Williams, Linda F. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Schmalenberger, Sarah
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- muziek, zwarte vrouwen, lesbische vrouwen, vrouwenfestivals, biografische gegevens, bundel, 20e eeuw, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- This collection is an 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. Individual essays concern the experiences of black women in classical music and in contemporary blues, the history of black female gospel-inflected voices in the Broadway musical, and 'hip-hop feminism' and its complications. Focusing on under-examined contexts, authors introduce readers to the work of a prominent gospel announcer, women’s music festivals (predominantly lesbian), and to women’s involvement in an early avant-garde black music collective. In contradistinction to a compilation of biographies, this volume critically illuminates themes of black authenticity, sexual politics, access, racial uplift through music, and the challenges of writing (black) feminist biography. Black Women and Music is a strong reminder that black women have been and are both social actors and artists contributing to African American thought.
African-American women composers and their music
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Walker-Hill, Helen
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 2007
- Thesaurus
- componisten, muziek, zwarte vrouwen, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- This book provides an examination of the history and scope of musical composition by African-American women composers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It gives attention to the musical, political and social context in which the music was composed. With individual chapters on Undine Smith Moore (1904-89), Julia Perry (1924-79), Margaret Bonds (1913-1972), Irene Britton Smith (1907-99), Dorothy Rudd Moore (b. 1940), Valerie Capers (b. 1935), Mary Watkins (b. 1939), and Regina Harris Baiocchi (b. 1956)
the untold story of rock-and-roll trailblazer sister Rosetta Tharpe
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Wald, Gayle
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 THA 2007
- Thesaurus
- muziek, popmuziek, volksmuziek, Verenigde Staten, biografie, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Long before 'women in rock' became a media catchphrase, Rosetta Tharpe proved that women could rock. Born in Arkansas, in 1915, she was gospel's first superstar and the pre-eminent crossover figure of its 'golden age' (1945-1965). Everyone who saw her perform said she could 'make that guitar talk.' An African American guitar virtuoso, Tharpe defied categorization. Blues singer, gospel singer, folk artist, and rock-and-roller, she 'went electric' in the late 1930s, amazing northern and southern, U.S. and international, and white and black audiences with her charisma and skill. Ambitious and relentlessly public, Tharpe even staged her own wedding as a gospel concert-in a stadium holding 20,000 people!
a biography and career record
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Nimmo, H. Arlo
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- B6506 - B
- Thesaurus
- muziek, populaire cultuur, Verenigde Staten, 1930-1939, 1940-1949, 1950-1959, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The Andrews Sisters, the legendary singing trio of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s are the most successful female singing group in history and were the world's top selling group until the Beatles arrived. Of the 605 songs they recorded, 113 charted. They also made 18 movies, appeared regularly on radio and television, and entertained three generations of GIs. Based on extensive research, unpublished letters, and interviews with family, friends, and colleagues, this book documents not only the lives and work of the Andrews Sisters but also the popular culture spanned by their long careers. The book contains a complete discography of their released, unreleased, and solo recordings, including recording dates, record numbers, and accompaniment. Also included are a filmography and documentation of their radio and television appearances.
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