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Black Diamond Queens - African American Women and Rock and Roll (Paperback)
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Black Diamond Queens - African American Women and Rock and Roll (Paperback)
Series: Refiguring American Music
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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.
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