![]() Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and author Sinéad Gleeson team up to compile an innovative collection of essays on women and the incredible power that can come from establishing their credibility in the music industry. “And the connections in music, like a map in murky times,” Smith claims, “comfort a girl who is finally telling her own stories with the kind of passion and rigor she has been telling the stories of others.”īuy Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop on AmazonĪlso Read Ani Di Franco Calls Writing A Children’s Book ‘A Different Bag of Doughnuts’ This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music ![]() Through weaving her own personal connections to music with the rise of these legends, she creates space for Black women to shine in their power. She gives back the credit where it’s deserved in discussing some of the most powerful Black female pop artists (Diana Ross, Gladys Knight, Aretha Franklin, and Janet Jackson, among other icons) who were leaders in the roadmap of music. Smith’s opening line, “My love of music is intense,” is a promise to the reader. Smith highlights how Black women’s voices have been completely erased from their role as the foundation of the pop music we know and love today. Broken down into unordered categories, here are SPIN‘s recommendations for the best music books in 2022: Music History - But This Time With Women Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in PopĪward-winning journalist Danyel Smith has released an impressive blend of cultural commentary, history, and personal memoir with Shine Bright. The following 17 titles delighted, educated, and surprised us, but most of all, they transformed the way we listen to music. They excavated the beginnings of hip-hop in Atlanta, women (specifically Black women) in country music, the Chicago ’90s underground scene, British heavy metal, and so much more. ![]() These authors presented unflinching new portraits of household names like Whitney Houston, Notorious B.I.G., and Nipsey Hussle. In the wake of 2020, after the global pandemic and the protests following the murder of George Floyd, all of these titles were particularly attuned to the way the entertainment business amplifies social and economic injustice, leading to the disenfranchisement of whole genres, styles, and eras of music. The one tenet that seemed to unite the music industry leaders, journalists, and historians who authored the following books is that music is a healer as much as it is a mirror to society. ![]()
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