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What Are You Doing Here? - A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal

Dawes, Laina

What Are You Doing Here? - A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal

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BK $15.50

12/25/2012 9781935950059 

9781935950059 


***Metal can save your life—or at least your sanity. What Are You Doing Here? investigates how black women musicians and fans navigate the metal, hardcore, and punk music genres that are regularly thought of as inclusive spaces and centered on a community spirit, but fail to block out the race and gender issues that exist in the outside world. LAINA DAWES walks readers through her lifelong love of metal, her subsequent ostracism in the black community, and the very real racism and sexism she and others have encountered while in pursuit of metal’s community spirit. Yet she remains headstrong and devout in arguing that black women need the emotional catharsis that metal delivers. Her keen observations are buttressed by stories shared by dozens of other black women headbangers and punks. You will never look at heavy metal fans in the same light again. Combines elements of memoir and music writing with dozens of original original interviews with black women headbangers and punks, including TAMAR-KALI, MILITIA VOX, CYNTHIA DAGNAL-MYRON, MONIQUE CRAFT, SAMEERAH BLUE, ALEXIS BROWN, KEIDRA CHANEY, KARMA ELISE and others. Foreword by SKIN, frontwoman of SKUNK ANANSIE. 208 pages, softcover.

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