ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on series made primarily or significantly by African American women, a group that has not had much access to producing mainstream culture, perhaps most notably films and television. It identifies two criteria in selecting the series to study, which is that they are all fictional, and that they are all produced solely or significantly by African American women. The chapter concentrates specifically on the work of African American women for two reasons: first, this is how it got interested in web series to begin with. second, because they are using important, fascinating new music strategies that make real changes from the mainstream American film and television model that is so often still prevalent, minor variations notwithstanding. The chapter considers web series in particular, by which it means a planned series of videos with some kind of narrative arc.
