Brooks tackles the complicated racial politics of blues music recording, song collecting, and rock and roll criticism. Zora Neale Hurston appears as a sound archivist and a performer, Lorraine Hansberry as a queer Black feminist critic of modern culture, and Pauline Hopkins as America’s first Black female cultural commentator. How is it possible, she asks, that iconic artists such as Aretha Franklin and Beyoncé exist simultaneously at the center and on the fringe of the culture industry? Liner Notes for the Revolution offers a startling new perspective on these acclaimed figures-a perspective informed by the overlooked contributions of other Black women concerned with the work of their musical peers. Brooks explores more than a century of music archives to examine the critics, collectors, and listeners who have determined perceptions of Black women on stage and in the recording studio.
“This is a book that, in many ways, owes much to the inroads in journalism forged by the pioneering Gleason and a generation of critics who wrote with color, character, passion, and rigor about popular music culture’s riveting complexity, its promise, and its prodigious power."ĭaphne A. Gleason Music Book Award for Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound,” said first-place winner Daphne A. “It’s a real honor to receive the 2022 Ralph J. First Place L iner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound by Daphne A.
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