Daphne A. Brooks is the author of Jeff Buckley's Grace and Bodies in Dissent, winner of the Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship in African American performance studies. Brooks has written liner notes to accompany the recordings of Aretha Franklin, Tammi Terrell, and Prince.
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Daphne A. Brooks explores more than a century of music archives to examine the critics, collectors, and listeners who have determined perceptions of Black women on stage and in the recording studio. How is it possible, she asks, that iconic artists such a... SEE MORE