Contents

Volume 26 • Number 1

Spring 2006




     
 
   
Editor's Introduction 1
CHRISTOPHER WILKINSON    
   
The Music of African-American Women: Secular and Sacred, Uplift and Self-Assertion   
   
Western University at Quindaro, Kansas (1865-1943) and Its Legacy of Pioneering Musical Women 7
HELEN WALKER-HILL  
 
Debuting Her Political Voice: The Lost Opera of Shirley Graham
39
   
SARAH SCKMULENBERGER  
   
Work the Works: The Role of African-American Women in the Development of Contemporary Gospel
89
   
TAMMY L. KERNUDLE  
   
"You Sell Your Soul Like You Sell a Piece of Ass": Rhythms of Black Female Sexuality and Subjectivity in MeShell Ndegeocello's Cookie: Tke Antkrupulogical Mixtupe
111
NGHANA LEWIS  
   

 



 
 
 
 

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