![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But as a music fan, and then as an essayist, editor ( Vibe, Billboard), and podcast host ( Black Girl Songbook), she has been living this history since she was a latchkey kid listening to "Midnight Train to Georgia" on the family stereo. Smith has been writing this history for more than five years. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, The Root, Variety, Esquire, The Guardian, Newsweek, Pitchfork, She Reads, Publishers Weekly SHORTLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD A weave of biography, criticism, and memoir, Shine Bright is Danyel Smith's intimate history of Black women's music as the foundational story of American pop. the overdue singing of a Black girl's song, with perfect pitch. This is their surprising, heartbreaking, soaring story-from "one of the generation's greatest, most insightful, most nuanced writers in pop culture" (Shea Serrano) "Sparkling. weave of memoir, criticism, and biography that tells the story of Black women in music-from the Dixie Cups to Gladys Knight to Janet, Whitney, and Mariah-as the foundational story of American pop"-īook Synopsis American pop music is arguably this country's greatest cultural contribution to the world, and its singular voice and virtuosity were created by a shining thread of Black women geniuses stretching back to the country's founding. About the Book "From one of the preeminent cultural critics of her generation, a. ![]()
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