... of Black blues women. Content Warning: This article mentions racial and ethnic slurs that may be triggering. Although they appear in the historical record below, their appearance has been intentionally minimized throughout the article. Black American music music analysis Black feminism...

... repertoire is now a celebrated phenomenon known far beyond Bolivia’s borders. In this article, I suggest how the tools of music analysis can help us better to understand the textures of New World colonial encounter. Here I follow Kofi Agawu, who demonstrates how tonality itself was a tool of colonialism...