Features a collection of essays that detail black women's experiences in various forms of music and details such topics as black authenticity, sexual politics,

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

* Laina Dawes is not always the only black woman at metal shows and she's not always the only headbanger among her black female friends. In this book, she quest

Drawing on fieldwork conducted at eight women's music festivals, Eileen M. Hayes shows how studying these festivals--attended by predominately white lesbians--p

In this often fascinating, nostalgic, and thoroughly moving collection of 20 interviews, author LaShonda Katrice Barnett offers a rare glimpse into the careers