Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound

Daphne A. 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. 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...