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Songs in Black and lavender : race, sexual politics, and women's music / Eileen M. Hayes ; foreword by Linda Tillery.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2010.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252091490
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • ML82 .S664 2010
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Contents:
Reconnaissance : entering a music festival scene -- After the golden age : negotiating perspective -- Nappy (and deep) roots : streams of musical and political influence -- "Ideal relationships" : women's music audiences -- Redistricting : gay and black outdoors -- Legacy : musicians of the next generation -- Working for the weekend : festival organizers and workers -- Guys like us : community membership revisited.
Summary: Annotation <div>Drawing on fieldwork conducted at eight women's music festivals, Eileen M. Hayes shows how studying these festivals--attended by predominately white lesbians--provides critical insight into the role of music and lesbian community formation. She argues that the women's music festival is a significant institutional site for the emergence of black feminist consciousness in the contemporary period. Hayes also offers sage perspectives on black women's involvement in the women's music festival scene, the ramifications of their performances as drag kings in those environments, and the challenges and joys of a black lesbian retreat based on the feminist festival model. With acuity and candor, longtime feminist activist Hayes elucidates why this music scene matters. Veteran vocalist, percussionist, producer, and cultural historian Linda Tillery provides a foreword.</div>
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Diary of a mad Black woman festigoer -- Reconnaissance : entering a music festival scene -- After the golden age : negotiating perspective -- Nappy (and deep) roots : streams of musical and political influence -- "Ideal relationships" : women's music audiences -- Redistricting : gay and black outdoors -- Legacy : musicians of the next generation -- Working for the weekend : festival organizers and workers -- Guys like us : community membership revisited.

Annotation <div>Drawing on fieldwork conducted at eight women's music festivals, Eileen M. Hayes shows how studying these festivals--attended by predominately white lesbians--provides critical insight into the role of music and lesbian community formation. She argues that the women's music festival is a significant institutional site for the emergence of black feminist consciousness in the contemporary period. Hayes also offers sage perspectives on black women's involvement in the women's music festival scene, the ramifications of their performances as drag kings in those environments, and the challenges and joys of a black lesbian retreat based on the feminist festival model. With acuity and candor, longtime feminist activist Hayes elucidates why this music scene matters. Veteran vocalist, percussionist, producer, and cultural historian Linda Tillery provides a foreword.</div>

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