Francesca T. Royster
Auteur van Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance
Over de Auteur
Francesca T. Royster is Professor in the Department of English at DePaul University. She is the author of Becoming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image of an Icon.
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- #231,246
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- 3.6
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Royster discusses Tina Turner, Beyonce, Lil Nas X, Darius Rucker, Valerie June, and the supergroup Our Native Daughters. These essays and the diverse artists they examine, prove that country music - and black country music at that - is a wide spectrum. These artist encompass everything from mainstream country (Darius Rucker), to the organic moonshine roots music of Valerie June (who sadly will probably never be on mainstream country radio), to the folk music of Our Native Daughters (which explores the roots of the banjo and what it means to be a black woman in America), to the country trap of Lil Nas X.
I found Royster's writing to be insightful, often moving. And I learned a lot.
My favorite essays were the ones about Valerie June and Our Native Daughters.
Highly recommended.… (meer)