Songs in Black and Lavender: Race, Sexual Politics, and Women's Music

by Eileen M. Hayes and Linda Tillery

Drawing on fieldwork conducted at eight women's music festivals, Eileen M. Hayes shows how studying these festivals--attended by predominately white lesbians--provides critical insight into the role of music and lesbian community formation. She argues that the women's music festival is a significant institutional site for the emergence of black feminist consciousness in the contemporary period. Hayes also offers sage perspectives on black women's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252076982
• ISBN13: 9780252076985
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"