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Black diamond queens : African American women and rock and roll
- Title
- Black diamond queens : African American women and rock and roll / Maureen Mahon.
- Author
- Mahon, Maureen
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 392 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll-from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been diminished by narratives of rock as a mostly white male enterprise. In Black Diamond Queens, Maureen Mahon draws on recordings, press coverage, archival materials, and interviews to document the history of African American women in rock and roll between the 1950s and the 1980s. Mahon details the musical contributions and cultural impact of Big Mama Thornton, LaVern Baker, Betty Davis, Tina Turner, Merry Clayton, Labelle, the Shirelles, and others, demonstrating how dominant views of gender, race, sexuality, and genre affected their careers. By uncovering this hidden history of black women in rock and roll, Mahon reveals a powerful sonic legacy that continues to reverberate into the twenty-first century"--
- Series Statement
- Refiguring American music
- Uniform Title
- Refiguring American music.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-373) and index.
- Contents
- Rocking and rolling with Big Mama Thornton -- LaVern Baker, the incredible disappearing queen of rock and roll -- Remembering the Shirelles -- Call and response -- Negotiating "Brown Sugar" -- The revolutionary sisterhood of Labelle -- The fearless funk of Betty Davis -- Tina Turner's turn to rock.
- Call Number
- JNE 22-96
- ISBN
- 9781478010197
- 1478010193
- 9781478011224
- 147801122X
- LCCN
- 2020014043
- OCLC
- 1141516276
- Author
- Mahon, Maureen, author.
- Title
- Black diamond queens : African American women and rock and roll / Maureen Mahon.
- Publisher
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Refiguring American musicRefiguring American music.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-373) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- Online version: Mahon, Maureen. Black diamond queens Durham : Duke University Press, 2020. 9781478012771 (DLC) 2020014044
- Research Call Number
- JNE 22-96