Brown Sugar: Over 100 Years of America's Black Female Superstars (New and Updated Edition)

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Brown Sugar: Over 100 Years of America's Black Female Superstars (New and Updated Edition)

Author(s):

Donald Bogle

Label: Continuum
Publisher(s):

Continuum

Studio: Continuum
Manufacturer: Continuum
Binding: Paperback
List Price: $39.95
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Editorial Reviews

Product Description

This newly designed, typeset, and updated edition of Donald Bogle?s classic study and celebration of America?s "dark divas" now takes readers up to the present. Originally published in 1980, Brown Sugar was also the basis for the four-hour, four-part, documentary that appeared on PBS as well as on German Education Television, all also written by Bogle.

Lavishly illustrated, Brown Sugar is a pioneering book ? for example, in Bogle?s application of the operatic term "diva" to pop goddesses. The first edition traced America?s black female superstars from the beginning of the 20th century to 1980. This new edition will have three new chapters on the 1980s, the 1990s, and the first half of the present decade.

Brown Sugar is not only about music stars. It is an unexcelled examination of the lives, careers, and sometimes-contradictory images (those public poses and private anxieties!) of African American goddesses of pop culture: the movies, television, music, and theater. An interpretive history, Brown Sugar is not only about the accomplishments but also the sometimes heart-wrenching struggles and tragedies of highly talented and ambitious women who set out to announce themselves to the world ? and while doing so, surmounted extraordinary obstacles, both professionally and personally.

Included are profiles of Ma Rainey, Josephine Baker, Ethel Waters, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Marian Anderson, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Eartha Kitt, Leontyne Price, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Aretha Franklin, Pam Grier, Donna Summer, Whitney Houston, Halle Berry, Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Angela Bassett, Oprah Winfrey, Lisa Bonet, Jasmine Guy, Lauren Hill, Queen Latifah, Beyonce, and many others.

Amazing to see is how today?s superstars, with their big cars and palatial homes, hark back to the giddy, glamorous era of Josephine Baker and the young Ethel Waters.

Customer Reviews

Good, but I expected a little more

I love that Mr. Bogle continues to uncover and expand on African-American female superstars in his book, "Brown Sugar"; however, I would've liked to see more coverage on two of the following actresses: Meagan Good and Jurnee Smollett. While they are mentioned, it is nothing more than a passing glance, and with the body of work that both of these young ladies are known for, I just feel that they deserve more coverage in Mr. Bogle's future considerations. Nonetheless, it is a great read.

Great book for the study of modern Black Film History

This book is an excellent source for anyone doing research on modern Black film history.

Soul Survivors

I really enjoyed the PBS series that came out of the first edition of this book 20 odd years ago and I am thrilled to see that it has finally received it's well-deserved update...so much has happened since then! Donald Bogle provides a thorough and insightful account of the last century of black female superstars and the book is full of illustrations to help you put faces to names...one on every page. Very recommended.

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