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Street Queens: New Orleans Brass Bands and the Problem of Intersectionality
- Author(s):
- Kyle DeCoste (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Subject(s):
- African Americans--Music, Popular music, Women's studies, Blacks--Study and teaching, Feminist theory, Ethnomusicology, Intersectionality (Sociology), Jazz
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- New Orleans, Popular music, African-American popular music, Black feminist theory, Intersectionality, Popular Music Studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/7drk-qw03
- Abstract:
- The members of the all-female Original Pinettes Brass Band contest the male domination of the New Orleans brass band scene. Playing music on male-gendered instruments, they queer the normative relationship between instruments and musicians and carve out a space for female musicianship. This essay deconstructs their songs and performance decisions as agential and subjective sites of black feminist thought put into action to subvert the brass band patriarchy. The Pinettes force us to view the New Orleans brass band scene as an intersectional site where gender is a central element in the construction and consolidation of power relationships.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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