African
American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll—from laying
its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of
the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to
the music's history has been diminished by narratives of rock as a
mostly white male enterprise. In Black Diamond Queens,
Maureen Mahon draws on recordings, press coverage, archival materials,
and interviews to document the history of African American women in rock
and roll between the 1950s and the 1980s. Mahon details the musical
contributions and cultural impact of Big Mama Thornton, LaVern Baker,
Betty Davis, Tina Turner, Merry Clayton, Labelle, the Shirelles, and
others, demonstrating how dominant views of gender, race, sexuality, and
genre affected their careers. By uncovering this hidden history of
black women in rock and roll, Mahon reveals a powerful sonic legacy that
continues to reverberate into the twenty-first century.
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