Maureen Mahon

Black Diamond Queens

African American Women and Rock and Roll

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Produktbeschreibung

Maureen Mahon documents the major contributions African American women vocalists such as Big Mama Thornton, Betty Davis, Tina Turner, and Merry Clayton have made to rock and roll throughout its history.

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Produktdetails

• Refiguring American Music
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9781478011224
• ISBN-10: 147801122X
• Artikelnr.: 58737365

Autorenporträt

Maureen Mahon is Associate Professor of Music at New York University and author of Right To Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction  1
1. Rocking and Rolling with Big Mama Thornton  29
2. LaVern Baker, the Incredible Disappearing Queen of Rock and Roll  52
3. Remembering the Shirelles  76
4. Call and Response  105
5. Negotiating "Brown Sugar"  141
6. The Revolutionary Sisterhood of Labelle  182
7. The Fearless Funk of Betty Davis  213
8. Tina Turner's Turn to Rock  240
Epilogue  273
Notes  285
Bibliography  349
Index  375