Lynnée Denise eschews her groundbreaking subject’s “Big Mama” moniker
Those looking for your standard music biography à la Peter Guralnick best move on. Instead, self-describing her work as an"experimental biography," Lynnée Denise tells the story of Willie Mae Thornton through a nontraditional, Black consciousness prism as part of UT Press' Music Matters series.
Despite some cringe-worthy factual mistakes, Denise effectively delivers perhaps her most salient point: Who is authorized to convey the story of these Black musicians? To paraphrase the text, should it be white journalists, promoters, and record company executives who dictate how the music is contextualized and defined in literature, musicology, and white-owned music publications? And who largely profits from the music? In fact, the story around Thornton's original recording of"Hound...
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