Danyel Smith - Shine Bright A Very Personal History Of Black Women In Pop - 2022 [EN]

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"Shine Bright by Danyel Smith" is a Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs title in English, distributed as a EPUB file (7.7 MB). Written by Danyel Smith. The book spans approximately 340 pages with 108,553 words. American pop music is arguably this country’s greatest cultural contribution to the world, and its singular voice and virtuosity were created by a shining thread of Black women geniuses stretching back to the country’s founding. This is their surprising, heartbreaking, soaring story—from “one of the generation’s greatest, most insightful, most nuanced writers in pop culture” (Shea Serrano) “Sparkling . . . the overdue singing of a Black girl’s song, with perfect pitch . . . delicious to read.”— Oprah Daily ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, The Root, Variety, E...

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CategoryBooks

LanguageEnglish (EN)

GenreBiography And Autobiography, History, Music, Nonfiction

QualityEPUB

Size7.7 MB

Pages340

ArchivedAug 27, 2026

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Title: Shine bright : a very personal history of black women in pop / Danyel Smith. I weep because I want Black women who create music to be known and understood, as I want to be known and understood. Most of the time they were sung by adult Black women—even when they weren’t. Both songs were recorded on the same day in 1970, in a Mississippi studio, in the very same session. I didn’t know what horns were on “Mr. Most of the recorded voices I heard when I was a kidlet were men singing alto and s