Hayes, E. M. Songs in Black and Lavender: Race, Sexual Politics, and Women’s Music. University of Illinois Press, 2010.

Drawing on fieldwork conducted at eight women's music festivals, Eileen M. Hayes shows how studying these festivals--attended by predominately white lesbians--provides critical insight into the role of music and lesbian community formation. She argues that the women's music festival is a significant institutional site for the emergence of black feminist consciousness in the contemporary period.

[Source: excerpt of book summary culled from worldcat.org].

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