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OverviewFrom 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alexis McGeePublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438496504ISBN 10: 1438496508 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 02 August 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface: A Tale of Two Stories: Listening to Liminal Spaces to Listen to Myself Introduction 1. Sonic Sharecropping 2. “Strange Fruit” Sonic Rhetorics 3. Queer(ing) Sound, Time, and Grammar: Black Women’s Methods for Generative Prosodic Rhetoric 4. Audible Advice, or Mentorship in Sound: A Black (Feminist) Practice of Care through Sonic Rhetorics 5. Reverb: A Coda for a Quiet, Undisputed Dignity in Sound Notes References IndexReviews"""Alexis McGee insightfully employs a Black feminist and decolonial framework to examine both the music industry's long history of exploiting Black women's sonic labor and the ways Black women music artists combat these modes of exploitation and erasure. Her rich textual and historical analysis reveals how Black women use music and vocals to forward a liberatory pedagogy that educates and instructs their audiences in how to navigate and thrive in the midst of America's antiblack ways."" — Ersula J. Ore, author of Lynching: Violence, Rhetoric and American Identity ""With its creativity, scope, and clear investment in care, From Blues to Beyoncé illustrates why and how music continues to operate as a life-giving medium and resource for Black women. This book will inspire important conversations."" — Tamika L. Carey, author of Rhetorical Healing: The Reeducation of Contemporary Black Womanhood" Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |