Select Writing — Daphne A. Brooks

“Planet Earth(a): Afrocosmopolitanism, Sonic Transnationalism & the Diasporic Politics of Eartha Kitt’s Cabaret,” Interamerican Perspectives: Cornbread and Cuchifritos, ed. Josef Raab and Sebastian Thies (Inter-American Studies/Estudios Interamericanos--Bilingual Review Press, Tempe, Arizona, 2011)

“Sister, Can You Line It Out?: Zora Neale Hurston & the Sound of Angular Black Womanhood,” Amerikastudien/American Studies 55 (4) 2011

“Nina Simone’s Triple Play,” Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters 34.1 Winter 2011

“This Voice Which Is Not One: Amy Winehouse Sings the Ballad of Sonic Blue(s)face Culture,” Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory, March 2010

“‘Once More with Feeling’: Popular Music Studies in the New Millennium,” Journal of Popular Music Studies 22(1): 98-106. Special Issue: “The State of the Field,” guest ed. Steve Waksman (2010)

“1920, August 10: Mamie Smith becomes the first black woman to make a phonograph record: A New Voice of the Blues,” A New Literary History of America, eds. Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2009), 545-550

with Gayle Wald, “Women Do Dylan: The Aesthetics and Politics of Bob Dylan Covers” in Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan From Minnesota to the World, eds. Colleen Sheehy and Thom Swiss (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2009)

“The Write to Rock: Racial Mythologies, Feminist Theory, and the Pleasures of Rock Music Criticism,” Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture Vol. 12 (2008): 54-62

“‘All That You Can't Leave Behind’: Surrogation & Black Female Soul Singing in the Age of Catastrophe,” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 8.1 (2008)

“The End of the Line: Josephine Baker and the Politics of Black Women’s Corporeal Comedy,” The Scholar & Feminist Online: The Barnard Center for Research on Women 6.1-6.2 (Fall 2007-Spring 2008): http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/

“Critical Karaoke: A Journey in ‘Lights’,” Black Clock Literary Arts Journal, September 2004 135-139. Reprint in Popular Music 24 (3), October/November 2005

“Burnt Sugar: Post-Soul Satire and Rock Memory,” This is Pop: Critical Essays from the First Annual Experience Music Project Conference on Popular Music, ed. Eric Weisbard (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2004): 124-146

“‘It’s Not Right But It’s Okay’: Contemporary Black Women’s R&B and the House that Terry McMillan Built,” SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society (5:1), Winter 2003: 32-45. Reprinted in ed. Manning Marable, The New Black Renaissance: The Souls Anthology of Critical African American Studies (New York: Paradigm Publishers, 2005): 168-182

LINER NOTES, PROGRAM ESSAYS, MUSEUM CATALOGUE ESSAYS

“Everybody Still Wants to Fly,” Liner Notes for Prince, Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition (Warner Brothers, September 2020)

“Black Sound & the Archive: Objects from the Gilmore Music Library Collection,” display cards, Spring 2018 display case exhibition, Yale University Irving S. Gilmore Music Library

“Inside Out with Alicia Hall Moran,” The Whitney Museum 2012 Biennial Exhibit Catalogue, March 2012

“Anatomy of Soul: Aretha Franklin’s Revolutionary Body of Work,” The 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame American Masters Concert Celebration Program, October 2011

“Bold Soul Ingenue,” Liner Notes for Aretha Franklin, the Columbia Years Box Set (Sony/Columbia Records, March 2011).

“Come On and See Me,” Liner Notes for The Complete Tammi Terrell (Universal Music, October 2010)

Liner Notes for Nina Simone, Little Girl Blue Reissue and Nina Simone and Friends (Omnivore Recordings, forthcoming)