Daphne A. Brooks

Daphne A. Brooks, a professor of English and African-American studies at Princeton University, is the author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 (Duke) and Jeff Buckley's Grace (Continuum).

I’m Every Woman: Whitney Houston, the Voice of the Post–Civil Rights Era

I’m Every Woman: Whitney Houston, the Voice of the Post–Civil Rights Era I’m Every Woman: Whitney Houston, the Voice of the Post–Civil Rights Era

Dismissed as inauthentic and overlooked by rock critics, Houston inspired a rainbow connection of Gen X and Y singers to belt across the colorline.

Feb 14, 2012 / Daphne A. Brooks

Amy Winehouse and the (Black) Art of Appropriation Amy Winehouse and the (Black) Art of Appropriation

Just about the only thing Amy Winehouse hasn't repackaged from the black music archives is the one thing she could use: a lesson in Motown etiquette.

Sep 10, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Daphne A. Brooks

Suga Mama, Politicized Suga Mama, Politicized

Beyoncé Knowles's sexed-up club jam B'Day is also an odd, urgent, dissonant and disruptive personal and political statement.

Nov 30, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Daphne A. Brooks

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