Black Women’s Liberation Movement Music argues that the Black Women’s Liberation Movement of the mid-to-late 1960s and 1970s was a unique combination of Black political feminism Black literary feminism and Black musical feminism among other forms of Black feminism. This book critically explores the ways the soundtracks of the Black Women’s Liberation Movement often overlapped with those of other 1960s and 1970s social political and cultural movements such as the Black Power Movement Women’s Liberation Movement and Sexual Revolution. The soul funk and disco music of the Black Women’s Liberation Movement era is simultaneously interpreted as universalist feminist (in a general sense) and Black female-focused. This music’s incredible ability to be interpreted in so many different ways speaks to the importance and power of Black women’s music and the fact that it has multiple meanings for a multitude of people. Within the worlds of both Black Popular Movement Studies and Black Popular Music Studies there has been a long-standing tendency to almost exclusively associate Black women’s music of the mid-to-late 1960s and 1970s with the Black male-dominated Black Power Movement or the White female-dominated Women’s Liberation Movement. However this book reveals that much of the soul funk and disco performed by Black women was most often the very popular music of a very unpopular and unsung movement: The Black Women’s Liberation Movement. Black Women’s Liberation Movement Music is an invaluable resource for students teachers and researchers of Popular Music Studies American Studies African American Studies Critical Race Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Studies. |Black Women's Liberation Movement Music Soul Sisters Black Feminist Funksters and Afro-Disco Divas | Music
