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Summary of Danyel Smith's Shine Bright
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 In the year 2000, if you walked into the lobby restaurant of the Rihga Royal Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, you might have run into the most famous and hardestworking people in the business of music. It was there that I met singer-songwriter Gerald Levert, and his father, Eddie Levert, of the O’Jays. #2 The song Exhale (Shoop Shoop) from the soundtrack of the film Waiting to Exhale was written and produced by Kenneth Babyface Edmonds, and was performed by Whitney Houston. It was nominated for Song of the Year at the thirty-ninth annual Grammys. #3 The music industry is a very mean business. It can be difficult to attend these types of events, as you never know what might happen. You have to be in the flow to enjoy them. #4 Segregation in music is just as severe as it is in life. The radio and retail industries enforce white-made music as the main, while all other recorded music is subordinate and not as impactful.
Shine Bright
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. 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 . . . the overdue singing of a Black girl’s song, with perfect pitch . . . delicious to read.”—Oprah Daily ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly A weave of biography, criticism, and memoir, Shine Bright is Danyel Smith’s intimate history of Black women’s mu...
She's Every Woman
In the vein of Twenty Feet from Stardom and Girls Like Us comes an authoritative narrative history of one of the most powerful segments of popular music—black female recording artists—told through the stories of some of the most famous and beloved female stars of our age, including Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Whitney Houston, and Janet Jackson, from the former editor-in-chief of Billboard and Vibe magazines. Drawing on hundreds of original interviews and her own expert insights gleaned from years of personal and professional experience, Danyel Smith charts the evolution of African American women in popular music, from “race music” “girl groups” and backup singers to the queen...
Bliss
Smith takes readers deep into the hip-hop realm, where sex, power, money, and music collide with provocative and sometimes disastrous results. Eye-opening, sensual, and absorbing, "Bliss" will appeal to anyone interested in the delicate choices faced by women who want it all.
Ray's Boathouse
Ray's Boathouse is a Seattle legend and one of the best cold-water seafood restaurants in the world. Set on Puget Sound, Ray's Boathouse became one of the best by dedication to the highest quality and passion for food. Now, Executive Chef Charles Ramseyer and staff bring you a collection of recipes that have been perfected over decades. These recipes were tested and adapted with easy-to-follow instructions for home cooks. Select from shellfish dishes such as Pan-Seared Alaskan Sea Scallops, and Classic Clam Linguine. Feast on wild salmon in meals such as Teriyaki Coho Salmon, and Pan-Roasted Copper River Sockeye Salmon. Find delectable desserts, just like those served at Ray's, including Yakima Peach and Blackberry Crisp, and Almond Biscuit Shortcake with Berries. Original recipes combined with the history of Ray's Boathouse make this cookbook a delight for any seafood lover.
Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky
Music industry insiders on the nature of fame Our cultural darlings make music; we make them mythic. Every musical genre begets a community of listeners, performers, and critics, and quite often those categories are blurred. From the principled punk refusal of celebrity to hip-hop's celebration of its power, the music world is self-obsessed. Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky assembles scholars, music writers, industry workers, and musicians, who offer a range of opinions and experience of the nature of fame. The collection focuses on commerce, the crowd, performance and image, history and memory, and romance. Contributors discuss black women icons, love-songs, the legacy of the blues, the i...
Liner Notes for the Revolution
An award-winning Black feminist music critic takes us on an epic journey through radical sound from Bessie Smith to Beyoncé. Daphne A. Brooks 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 musica...
More Like Wrestling
Told from the alternating points of view of two sisters, "More Like Wrestling" is a story about love--its potential for salvation and its limitations--as well as the dangers of apathy and the ultimate necessity for forgiveness.
And It Don't Stop
In September 1979, there was a cosmic shift that went unnoticed by the majority of mainstream America. This shift was triggered by the release of the Sugarhill Gang's single, Rapper's Delight. Not only did it usher rap music into the mainstream's consciousness, it brought us the word "hip-hop." And It Don't Stop, edited by the award winning journalist Raquel Cepeda, with a foreword from Nelson George is a collection of the best articles the hip-hop generation has produced. It captures the indelible moments in hip-hop's history since 1979 and will be the centerpiece of the twenty-fifth-anniversary celebration. This book epitomizes the media's response by taking the reader on an engaging and c...
Total Chaos
Examines hip-hop's past, present, and future in a collection of essays, interviews, and discussions.
