ABSTRACT
The introduction provides an overview of the main aim of the book, which is to offer an analysis of the unique role that Black women’s popular music played in the Black Women’s Liberation Movement. Conversely, the introduction also offers a preview of the impact that Black feminism and the Black Women’s Liberation Movement, either directly or indirectly, had on Black women’s popular music during the mid-to-late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. The book begins with a series of simple questions, such as: What was the Black Women’s Liberation Movement? How were the movement’s politics and emphasis on racial, gender, and economic justice expressed through the work of African American women musicians, especially soul, funk, and disco artists? What is Black musical feminism? What were the connections between the Black musical feminism of soul, funk, and disco artists and the Black political feminism of the Black Women’s Liberation Movement?
