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Regis St. Louis
A weave of biography, criticism, and memoir, this is Danyel Smith's intimate history of Black women's music as the foundational story of American pop. Begins with Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved woman who sang her poems, and continues through the stories of Mahalia Jackson, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, and Mariah Carey, as well as the under-considered careers of Marilyn McCoo, Deniece Williams, and Jody Watley.