Black Queens and Modern Music Legends
by Aliya Dalfen on 2022-03-04T11:24:00-05:00 in Black Heritage 365, Collections Spotlight | 0 Comments
To celebrate International Women's Day on March 8th, Humber Libraries is spotlighting Black queens and legends of modern music.
Learn more about Afro-Trinidadian singers such as Calypso Rose, Singing Sandra, and Denyse Plummer and the history of women in Soca, Calypso. Read interviews of lesser known Women in Jamaican Music, who fought for their own musical recognition and helped create and shape Jamaica's musical heritage. Listen to Shenseea, the latest Jamaican sensation in dancehall.
Read about how female hip-hop and rap artists such as Queen Latifah, Missy Elliot and Lil' Kim tell their stories and construct their identities through their songs, to dismantle negative representations of Black womanhood. Watch Say My Name, a documentary exploring the intersectionality of women in hip hop, featuring interviews and live performances. Delve further into hip-hop culture with the Crunk Feminist Collection, which blends hip-hop and Southern Black culture with its beat-driven, bass-laden sounds.
Explore the evolution of pop and R&B music with the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, or watch an in-depth documentary on the life and music of Whitney Houston. Watch an interview with Beyonce as she rises to stardom, or read literature exploring her songwriting through a feminist perspective in The Beyonce Effect: Essays on Sexuality, Race and Feminism.
Enjoy the newly published book Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll, which chronicles the careers of foundational female African American artists and bands such as The Shirelles, Dionne Warwick, and Tina Turner.
Co-authored by Shernett Bennett and Aliya Dalfen
Images Sources for Web Tile
Festival des Vieilles Charrues 2016 - Calypso Rose, Thesupermat, CC BY NC-SA 4.0 International
Beyonce Bélgica, J.ébey, CC BY NC-SA 4.0 International
Whitney Houston welcome home heroes, PH2 Mark Kettenhofen, PD-USGov
Missy Elliott 2006, Romana Pierzga, CC BY NC-SA 2.0
Aretha Franklin 2015, The White House, PD-USGov
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