perdues de vue: quips on women+music

29th Sep 2012 | 3,935 notes

lucitania:

“Singer Yma Sumac, a descendant of Atahualpa, the last Incan emperor, 1950s”

(Source: recollective, via lover-root)

25th Sep 2012 | 45 notes

under-radar-mag:

Congratulations to Feist, who just won the 2012 Polaris Prize

“Why You Listening To That White Sh-t?”

An excerpt from photographer, music writer and now author Laina Dawes’ cleverly written, brave, personal and yet incredibly relatable book - “What Are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal”

Writing this book, I found other black women who had felt rejected by friends, family members, or their communities because of their musical preferences.

At one point, I distributed a mass questionnaire, and nearly three-quarters of the replies described negative reactions to listening to heavy metal.

Many of the replies were predictable: “Many people say the style of music I like isn’t really music, it’s just loud noise. Or that I’m not black because I like rock or punk music.”

Others were encouraging: “Especially when I say I like rock, they think it’s like devil or white music. I find it hilarious. I revel in my musical tastes and find audio joy wherever I can.”

Some were unfortunate: “When I was younger, I was criticized for listening to ‘white’ music and told I was weird and [that] there was something wrong with me for being a black girl listening to rock ’n’ roll … [Then] I learned that black folks actually created it.”

by Laina Dawes [Courtesy of Bazillion Points Books, 2012. ]

13th Sep 2012 | 47,904 notes

fearfullymade-locs:

I got dressed in my traditional Indian regalia, but there was a man, he was the producer of the whole show. He took that speech away from me and he warned me very sternly. “I’ll give you 60 seconds or less. And if you go over that 60 seconds, I’ll have you arrested. I’ll have you put in handcuffs.”

- Sacheen Littlefeather in Reel Injun (2009), dir. Neil Diamond.

Hmmm, interesting

(Source: feu-follet, via lover-root)