Liner Notes for the Revolution

The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound

Daphne A. Brooks

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$39.95 • £31.95 • €36.00

ISBN 9780674052819

Publication Date: 02/23/2021

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608 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

90 photos

Belknap Press

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Author’s Note
Introduction
Side A
- 1. Toward a Black Feminist Intellectual Tradition in Sound
- 2. “Sister, Can You Line It Out?”: Zora Neale Hurston Notes the Sound
- 3. Blues Feminist Lingua Franca: Rosetta Reitz Rewrites the Record
- 4. Thrice Militant Music Criticism: Ellen Willis & Lorraine Hansberry’s What Might Be
Side B
- 5. Not Fade Away: Looking After Geeshie & Elvie / L. V.
- 6. “If You Should Lose Me”: Of Trunks & Record Shops & Black Girl Ephemera
- 7. “See My Face from the Other Side”: Catching Up with Geeshie and L. V.
- 8. “Slow Fade to Black”: Black Women Archivists Remix the Sounds
Epilogue: Going to the Territory
Notes
Acknowledgments
Credits
Index

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A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, 2021

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