Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla Mccalla, Allison Russell)

H-Haiti Songs of Our Native Daughters (Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, Allison Russell)

Discussion published by Marlene Daut on Thursday, February 21, 2019 Songs of Our Native Daughters

Our Native Daughters (Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, Allison Russell)

Citation: Marlene Daut. Songs of Our Native Daughters (Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, Allison Russell). H-Haiti. 02-21-2019. https://networks.h-net.org/node/116721/discussions/3751621/songs-our-native-daughters-rhiannon-giddens-amythyst-kiah-leyla Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-Haiti

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Songs of Our Native Daughters shines new light on African-American women’s stories of struggle, resistance, and hope. Pulling from and inspired by 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century sources, including slave narratives and early minstrelsy, kindred banjo players Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell reinterpret and create new works from old ones. With unflinching, razor- sharp honesty, they confront sanitized views about America’s history of slavery, racism, and misogyny from a powerful, black female perspective. These songs call on the persistent spirits of the daughters, mothers, and grandmothers who have fought for justice – in large, public ways – only now being recognized, and in countless domestic ways that will most likely never be acknowledged. 52 minutes, 36-page booklet with lyrics.

More information here: https://folkways.si.edu/songs-of-our-native-daughters