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Summary:

"Black Women's Liberation Movement Music argues that the Black Women's Liberation Movement of the mid-to-late 1960s and 1970s was a unique combination of Black political feminism, Black literary feminism, and Black musical feminism, among other forms of Black feminism. This book critically explores the ways the soundtracks of the Black Women's Liberation Movement often overlapped with those of other 1960s and 1970s social, political, and cultural movements, such as the Black Power Movement, Women's Liberation Movement, and Sexual Revolution. The soul, funk, and disco music of the Black Women's Liberation Movement era is simultaneously interpreted as universalist, feminist (in a general sense), and Black female-focused. This music's incredible ability to be interpreted in so many different ways speaks to the importance and power of Black women's music and the fact that it has multiple-meanings for a multitude of people. Within the worlds of both Black popular movement studies and Black popular music studies there has been a longstanding tendency to almost exclusively associate Black women's music of the mid-to-late 1960s and 1970s with the Black male-dominated Black Power Movement or the White female-dominated Women's Liberation Movement. However, this book reveals that much of the soul, funk, and disco performed by Black women was most often the very popular music of a very unpopular and unsung movement: the Black Women's Liberation Movement. Black Women's Liberation Movement Music is an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and researchers of Popular Music Studies, American Studies, African American Studies, Critical Race Studies, Gender Studies, and Sexuality Studies"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : the musical icons and anthems of the Black Women's Liberation Movement
• The Black Women's Liberation Movement
• Black musical feminism
• Soul sisters
• Black feminist funksters
• Afro-disco divas
• Conclusion : on the popular music of Black women's unpopular movement.

Author/Creator:

Rabaka, Reiland, 1972- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Black women's liberation movement music: Soul sisters, Black feminist funksters, and Afro-disco divas [by Rabaka, R.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Black women's liberation movement music [by Rabaka, R.] (New York : Routledge, 2024 — ISBN 9781032547466; LCCN 2023019387)

Subjects:

African American women — Music — History and criticism

Womanism — United States

Feminism and music — United States — History — 20th century

Music — Political aspects — United States — History — 20th century

Popular music — 1961-1970 — History and criticism

Popular music — 1971-1980 — History and criticism

1900-1999

Music

Womanism

Feminism and music

Music — Political aspects

Popular music

African American women

United States

Genres:

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reiland Rabaka is the Founder and Director of the Center for African & African American Studies and Professor of African, African American, and Caribbean Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is also a research fellow in the College of Human Sciences at the University of South Africa (UNISA).
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 02, 2023).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

ML3479 .R275 2024eb

ISBNs:

9781003427339 (electronic book)
1003427332 (electronic book)
9781000966794 (electronic book)
1000966798 (electronic book)
9781000966787 (electronic book)
100096678X (electronic book)
9781032547466 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9781032547459 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2023019388

OCLC Numbers:

1381733122