Black Women's Liberation Movement Music: Soul Sisters, Black Feminist Funksters, and Afro-Disco Divas [Hardcover]

Introduction. The Musical Icons and Anthems of the Black Womens Liberation Movement  1. The Black Womens Liberation Movement  2. Black Musical Feminism  3. Soul Sisters  4. Black Feminist Funksters  5. Afro-Disco Divas  Conclusion. On the Popular Music of Black Womens Unpopular Movement

Black Womens Liberation Movement Music argues that the Black Womens 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.

Reiland Rabaka is the Founder and Director of the Center for African & African American Studies and Professor of African, African American, and Caribbean Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is also a research fellow in the College of Human Sciences at the University of South Africa (UNISA).

Black Womens Liberation Movement Music argues that the Black Womens 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 Womens Liberation Movement often overlapped with those of other 1960s and 1970s social, political, and cultural movements, such as the Black Power Movement, Womens Liberation Movement, and Sexual Revolution. The soul, funk, and disco music of the Black Womens Liberation Movement era is simultaneously interpreted as universalist, feminist (in a general sense), and Black female-focused. This musics incredible ability to be interpreted in so many different ways speaks to the importance and power of Black womens music and the fact that it has multiple meaninglƒ,