Eileen M. Hayes Songs in Black and lavender

race, sexual politics, and women's music

This ethnomusicological study draws on fieldwork conducted at women's music festivals in the US and on the author’s personal experiences. Hayes argues that the women's music festivals were significant institutional sites for the emergence of black lesbian feminist consciousness. She discusses the essence and importance of so called women’s music and the theoretical issues raised by black women’s presence and white expressions of ethnocentrism within it. Includes a discography of black musicians in...

Engels | 231 pagina's | University of Illinois Press, Urbana [etc.] | 2010

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