Shine Bright A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

American pop music is arguably this country's greatest cultural contribution to the world, and its singular voice and virtuosity were created by a shining thread of Black women geniuses stretching back to the country's founding. This is their surprising, heartbreaking, soaring story-from "one of the generation's greatest, most insightful, most nuanced writers in pop culture" (Shea Serrano)"Sparkling . . . the overdue singing of a Black girl's song, with perfect pitch . . . delicious to read."-Oprah DailyA weave of biography, criticism, and memoir, Shine Bright is Danyel Smith's intimate history of Black women's music as the foundational story of American pop. Smith has been writing this history for more than five years. But as a music fan, and then as an essayist, editor (Vibe, Billboard), and podcast host (Black Girl Songbook), she has been living this history since she was a latchkey kid listening to "Midnight Train to Georgia" on the family stereo. Smith's detailed narrative begins with Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved woman who sang her poems, and continues through the stories of Mahalia Jackson, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, and Mariah Carey, as well as the under-considered careers of Marilyn McCoo, Deniece Williams, and Jody Watley. Shine Bright is an overdue paean to musical masters whose true stories and genius have been hidden in plain sight-and the book Danyel Smith was born to write.

ISBN:	9780593132715
Publisher:	Random House Publishing Group
Imprint:	Roc Lit 101
Published date:	19 Apr 2022
DEWEY:	782.421640922
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	cm
Weight:	600g
Height:	243mm
Width:	167mm
Spine width:	32mm

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