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Brooks brings readers on an epic journey through radical sound from Bessie Smith to Beyoncé and 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 as Aretha Franklin and Beyoncé exist simultaneously at the center and on the fringe of the culture industry? Liner Notes for the Revolution offers a startling new perspective on these acclaimed figures—a perspective informed by the overlooked contributions of other Black women concerned with the work of their musical peers. Zora Neale Hurston appears as a sound archivist and a performer, Lorraine Hansberry as a queer Black feminist critic of modern culture, and Pauline Hopkins as America’s first Black female cultural commentator. Brooks tackles the complicated racial politics of blues music recording, song collecting, and rock and roll criticism. She makes lyrical forays into the blues pioneers Bessie Smith and Mamie Smith, as well as fans who became critics, like the record-label entrepreneur and writer Rosetta Reitz. In the twenty-first century, pop superstar Janelle Monáe’s liner notes are recognized for their innovations, while celebrated singers Cécile McLorin Salvant, Rhiannon Giddens, and Valerie June take their place as cultural historians. With an innovative perspective on the story of Black women in popular music—and who should rightly tell it—Liner Notes for the Revolution pioneers a long overdue recognition and celebration of Black woman musicians as radical intellectuals. https://www.daphneabrooks.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-01-26 https://www.daphneabrooks.com/select-writing daily 0.75 2025-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/20271853-bb3b-49fb-ad10-40fb1cb11483/Image+1-29-25+at+7.18%E2%80%AFPM.jpeg Select Writing - OLD VERSION - Make it stand out Justin Sullivan/Getty Images; Michelle V. 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Music aficionados should take note.” —Publisher’s Weekly “Daphne Brooks has written a gloriously polyphonic book. Moving through the tumult of the twentieth century and the millennium, she scores, archives, and curates the history of Black woman musicians and their radical modernities, all created in a culture that presumed they had no voices or minds. What did they do to be so Black, brilliant, and blue? Listen. And read on.” —Margo Jefferson, author of the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning Negroland “For Daphne Brooks, black feminist sound is sensuous thought. In Liner Notes for the Revolution, she feels and shows and says this with such devotion, such critical and emotional intelligence, such archival commitment and dexterity, and such urgent social aspiration that listening itself is new again.” —Fred Moten, author of All That Beauty “Liner Notes for the Revolution is a groundbreaking and breathtaking volume from one of our leading cultural historians that will forever change the way we write and think about American culture. Daphne Brooks insists upon the genius of black women music-makers, listeners, and critics. This transformative work of intellectual generosity is sure to join the ranks of classic works such as Amiri Baraka’s Blues People and Greil Marcus’s Lipstick Traces.” —Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of Harlem Nocturne https://www.daphneabrooks.com/deep-cuts-1 daily 0.75 2021-01-26 https://www.daphneabrooks.com/selectmedia daily 0.75 2026-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/acd75817-87d9-4a33-b918-200de646abe5/Screenshot+2025-02-20+at+2.14.14%E2%80%AFPM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/f5e1823c-ecce-498c-b4f8-684c2992383f/Screenshot+2025-02-16+at+2.57.22%E2%80%AFPM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/77a6f934-2631-4402-908a-82332d7106f7/Henry+Box+Article.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/e2593ae3-6611-4b95-98a2-41c23ad897a7/Screenshot+2025-02-16+at+2.51.06%E2%80%AFPM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/af3fe224-1be8-4ddc-a1ad-4c4ae62b2a57/Screenshot+2023-12-05+151059.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/e779be79-963d-432c-81c6-78b405badb35/YSC_CBR_2906.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/499b07be-4831-4b5f-8a66-0012788df5c3/Screenshot+2023-12-05+151802.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/5812e46a-e456-46e9-87c2-3c8c34aadc55/Still+Processong.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/1625882420290-P0YGFAELEFM4XWX87RWD/rollingstone.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/77873757-616f-444c-8131-f74529848bd1/bbc.PNG Select Media - BBC: “Tina Turner: Queen of rock'n'roll dies at 83” Daphne A. Brooks joins this BBC Newsday segment on the death of rock icon Tina Turner to discuss Turner’s life, music, and legacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/e6c29cc5-b890-4d28-9ea6-4da083f7ca82/image_6487327.JPG Select Media - “Sonic Zora in Florida” In this media-enhanced excerpt from Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021), Daphne A. Brooks delves into Zora Neale Hurston's 1939 experiences as the only Black woman on the staff of the Federal Writers Project's Florida Guide. A keen listener, interviewer, and ethnographer, Hurston, as heard in these recordings, was also a sonic interpreter of vernacular voices and performance styles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/1634236591390-ECNM4RUWX9BETH7TEU1T/IMG-2200.jpg Select Media - Yale Daily News: 2021 MAAH Stone Book Award Daphne Brooks discusses her book Liner Notes For The Revolution along with the recently announced MAAH Stone Book Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/1625882530834-W9QKKQL473Q7VTQHTXLY/kqed.JPG Select Media - Daphne Brooks in conversation with Ariana Proehl In her new book Liner Notes for the Revolution cultural critic Daphne Brooks explores the Black women artists that were major influences on American music. Brooks uncovers the racial politics at play in the recording studio, on stage, and in the reviews of everything from blues to rock and roll. Yale University African American studies professor Daphne Brooks joins us to share her take on the legacy and enduring appeal of the Black female musician. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/1625882552449-BTGBWTPDQWUGIIU8QHKO/city+lights.JPG Select Media - City Lights Bookstore: 5 Questions Daphne A. Brooks is the author of Jeff Buckley’s Grace and Bodies in Dissent, and winner of the Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship in African American performance studies. A professor at Yale University, she has written liner notes to accompany the recordings of Aretha Franklin, Tammi Terrell, and Prince, as well as stories for the New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, and Pitchfork. Daphne Brooks in conversation with Ann Powers discussing her new book Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound in the City Lights LIVE! discussion series on Wednesday, February 24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/1625882574643-4BU2TCXJWZ00OUMJ6CM9/new+books+network.JPG Select Media - New Books in African American Studies SOCIETY & CULTURE Interviews with Scholars of African America about their New Books Amanda Joyce Hall interviews Daphne A. Brooks for the New Books Network Podcast https://www.daphneabrooks.com/news-1-1 daily 0.75 2025-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/19e6d94b-445c-4ccc-a21e-c0ef3165abf1/IMG-3963.JPG In the News - Winner of the 2022 Prose Award in the category of: MUSIC & THE PERFORMING ARTS Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound Since 1976, the Association of American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Awards) have recognized the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by celebrating the authors, editors, and publishers whose landmark works have made significant advancements in their respective fields of study each year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/f63ed71f-1731-43d5-bd1f-f3971aa1ddb8/IMG-2491-2.jpg In the News - Winner of the Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for an article in the pop music field is presented to Daphne A. Brooks for “100 Years Ago, 'Crazy Blues' Sparked a Revolution for Black Women Fans,” published in The New York Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/c17cef12-6151-4113-8114-407d8dbf076f/IMG-3959.jpg In the News - Pitchfork Best Music Books of 2021 Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (Harvard UP) Yale professor Daphne A. Brooks’ third book is a sweeping survey of Black womenLiner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound’s contributions to music history and a rigorous mapping of their lives as intellectuals. From Bessie Smith to Beyoncé, Brooks issues a monumental corrective to how Black women are “too rarely held as makers of rare sounds deemed deserving of excavation and long study,” and dares us to imagine a culture that puts Black women at its “full-stop center.” Pitchfork | November 22, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/787e73e6-267a-42fd-ac5c-5a70af51e6c3/IMG-3957+%281%29.jpg In the News - Rolling Stone Best Music Books of 2021: Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (Harvard University Press) “Yale professor Daphne Brooks takes on a wide-ranging study of Black female artists, from elders like Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters to Beyoncé and Janelle Monáe. But she reaches far beyond music, exploring writers like Zora Neale Hurston and Pauline Hopkins; there’s a chapter about an early interview between the playwright Lorraine Hansberry and the rock critic Ellen Willis. Liner Notes is a secret history in the spirit of Greil Marcus, connecting the sonic worlds of Black female mythmakers and truth-tellers. One of the most touching moments: Brooks’ mother recalls record shopping as a spiritual refuge in the Jim Crow South of the 1940s.” Rolling Stone | December 29, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/37179e09-492f-410f-a21f-714058a2edcd/IMG-3955.jpg In the News - 2021 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Nonfiction for U.S. multicultural writers, to “promote works of excellence by writers of all cultural and racial backgrounds and to educate both the public and the media as to the nature of multicultural work” for Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (Harvard UP, 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/c0b52855-bcf6-4fcd-a110-801b0453fe29/IMG-3953+%281%29.jpg In the News - Boston Globe Summer Reading 2021 List for Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (Harvard UP, 2021) Brooks is a great music writer and cultural critic. Narrating the histories of American music and music criticism with Black women as the central voices and innovators, “Liner Notes” is a playlist doubling as intellectual history, written with love and joy. — Walton Muyumba https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/ec75213f-b68b-4937-b9cb-5c0b27eff3f7/IMG-3964.JPG In the News - Los Angeles Times Book Club Favorite Literary Escapes of 2021: Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (Harvard UP, 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/cd1c9853-9b21-4e25-a2de-174b043d5ea4/IMG-3962.jpg In the News - Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 List “A spirited study of how Black women musicians and writers have informed each other despite gatekeepers’ neglect and dismissals.” Kirkus Reviews | November 15, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/1633749830189-2W48I3OGP2J82SYPMLD4/MAAH+Award.jpg In the News - Winner of the 2021 MAAH Stone Book Award: Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/1627590177950-QDNMGP9VS9NPFCGUB257/Skylit_Brooks+%2B+George.png In the News Daphne Brooks in conversation with Lynell George for Skylit -- the Skylight Books podcast series. Skylit | July 26, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/1626986471403-NVLTRQHSYN8PM2VHYHZD/image_6483441.JPG In the News “‘From Bessie Smith to Beyoncé’ is the inescapable bumper-sticker on this hour of historical, musical radio. We’re talking about a century of Black female singers in the churn of gender, race, class, region, technology, and celebrity that drive the culture and the music biz. ” Radio Open Source | July 15, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/1625878856095-BM4F8UICDNXIZ2MLVWL9/image_6487327-2.JPG In the News "That’s how I think about Black feminist sound. It’s something that we ethically have a responsibility as scholars to identify as a resonance and meaning—both in the historical moment in which a particular expressive statement emerges and that exceeds that moment." Ms. Magazine | June 29, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/ed83c295-76b8-4103-8f17-093ef55f6941/cover00_large.jpg In the News “A thrilling and genre-expanding work of criticism, Liner Notes for the Revolution is a study not only of Black women musicians but also of the radical possibilities of listening, collecting, and curating as forms of intellectual and political labor.” Bookforum | March 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/1625879680802-VC3RK674J3IU0PQ4BV7I/vulture.JPG In the News "There have been many books about major African American figures in history and culture-making. But Liner Notes, which came out in February, examines both Black women music-makers and what Brooks calls, in a nod to Saidiya Hartman, “the chorus” — the Black women critics and collectors who inspire the music, listen to it, curate it, live with it, make love to it, analyze it, and tell us its stories." Vulture | May 21, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/1625879703292-9ABMUX2ZZ2YYVGC4TPH0/audiofemme.JPG In the News "This isn’t a traditional music history book, although, at one point, Brooks had considered writing 'a long, sweeping history of Black women and popular music culture.' Instead, she says, 'the book that I ended up writing is really about the story of why we’ve never had a book like that before.'” Audiofemme | April 15, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/1617855533043-G96FAP4M9C0SV4R8DZPY/Screen+Shot+2021-04-07+at+9.18.20+PM.png In the News “Popular music culture is steeped in cultural memories and intimacies, the lifeworlds that we associated with the music and build with the music…. African American artists are so prone to turning to music as a kind of historical and archival recourse. It’s where and how they document individual as well as communal pasts when institutional libraries and museums and universities were gaslighting Black folks about having a relevant and significant past in American culture. These are the stakes involved in the music that I’m exploring. It’s challenging but also exhilarating to try to dissect all that in a book and from one performance and recording to the next.” Music Journalism Insider | April 4, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/1625879973697-HMSCYL8JUYCJ79XQV7QA/nation.JPG In the News - Interview “How Black Women Musicians Define What We Call Culture” The Nation | March 15, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/1625879722701-ONYW2C1ALWHJFIPCT8YX/thulani.JPG In the News - Thulani Davis and the Secret History of Women Writing Album Liner Notes Since its inception in 1964, the Grammy for best album notes has been awarded to just three women. Davis, who won in 1993 for an Aretha Franklin boxed set, was the first. —Daphne A. Brooks, The New York Times | March 12, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/1614113071831-I7IJ7PLUYMUV98NR439T/The+Wire_Stephanie+Phillips.jpg In the News - “Written out of official archives, Black women artists and journalists provide a valuable rejoinder to whitewashed accounts of music history.” — Stephanie Phillips, The Wire | March 2021 (Issue 445) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/1625881315433-KYLF18IQYCB2WZ41C9B5/jezebel.JPG In the News - Liner Notes for the Revolution Excerpt “Shifting the Center of American Music from Bob Dylan to Beyoncé Knowles” JEZEBEL | Feb 25, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/1625880605671-IVBZ118TK1QUP55O25BS/image_6487327-2.JPG In the News - “If the gender politics of teen melodrama are quickly evolving, the treatment of race is a different story. Since the ’60s, when Black girl groups helped turn the idea into commercial gold, teen melodrama has been largely embodied by young white women — one result of a society in which ‘Black children aren’t afforded the space to occupy the position of being young because the weight of the world is put on them,’ according to Daphne Brooks, a veteran cultural critic and professor of African American studies at Yale.” Mikael Wood, The Los Angeles Times | Feb 24, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff539fcfe6e8d5e4781dd9e/1625881073638-XEVHW6MX3AZ5C9K0TDOF/lithub.JPG In the News - Liner Notes for the Revolution Excerpt "The Woman Who Preserved Zora Neale Hurston’s Musical Legacy” Daphne A. 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