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From Blues to Beyoncé: A Century of Black Women's Generational Sonic Rhetorics

by McGee, Alexis

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Explores how Black women have continually used sound to convey stories and forge community across generations.

From Blues to Beyoncé amplifies Black women's ongoing public assertions of resistance, agency, and hope across different media from the nineteenth century to today. By examining recordings, music videos, autobiographical writings, and speeches, Alexis McGee explores how figures such as Ida B. Wells, Billie Holiday, Ruth Brown, Queen Latifah, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Janelle Monáe, and more mobilize sound to challenge antiBlack discourses and extend social justice pedagogies. Building on contemporary Black feminist interventions in sound studies and sonic rhetorics, From Blues to Beyoncé reveals how Black women's sonic acts transmit meaning and knowledge within, between, and across generations.

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  • State University of New Y Brand
  • Aug 2, 2024 Pub Date:
  • 1438496508 ISBN-10:
  • 9781438496504 ISBN-13:
  • English Language
  • 9 in * 0.55 in * 6 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: