Race, Self-Invention, and Dusty Springfield’s Voice

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190879891.003.0006 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 139-166

Author(s):

Alexandra M. Apolloni

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

White Women ◽

Pop Music ◽

Black Artists ◽

Music Scene ◽

Tv Program ◽

The 1960S

In the 1960s, Dusty Springfield’s voice earned her frequent comparisons to African American vocalists. This chapter argues that Springfield’s vocal sound reveals how racialized listening processes operate. It shows how the historical reception of Black singers in Britain, assumptions about how white women sounded, and a pop music scene that cultivated excitement through engagement with racial otherness moved listeners to hear her voice in racialized terms. The chapter begins with discussion of how Springfield’s story of vocal transformation has been told by her biographers. Then, it consider two key collaborations between Springfield and Black artists: the “Sound of Motown,” a special episode of the TV program Ready Steady Go!, and her 1969 album, Dusty in Memphis. Although separated only by five years, the two performances in question construct Springfield’s relationship to race and identity much differently, responding, in part, to political, cultural, and musical changes that occurred during the intervening years.

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Beatle Boots and Lennon Glasses - 1960s fashion in Pop Music

Revista 2i: Estudos de Identidade e Intermedialidade ◽

10.21814/2i.3150 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 53-71

Author(s):

Kathrin Engelskircher

Keyword(s):

Border Crossing ◽

Strong Impact ◽

Pop Music ◽

Specific Kind ◽

Music Scene ◽

Strongly Connected ◽

New Perspective ◽

The 1960S ◽

Media Channels ◽

Interesting Development

Fashion is a phenomenon strongly connected with music. Artists are aware of what they wear on stage and in public spaces and how they present themselves via social media channels. In this way, they do not only create a certain image of themselves through this self-staging strategy, but they also show their affiliation to a certain scene. In the 1960s a specific kind of music was developed which was, therefore, also characterised by a particular way of dressing and style to the current music scene which owes its strong impact to the current music scene. The Beatles as the maybe most influential band of the 1960s with a very interesting development regarding their own fashion serve as a model for the style of the Spanish-Chilean, Germany-based band The Recalls. Their specific kind of appropriation actualises, transforms and recontextualises as a translational act the fashion of The Beatles in a postmodern way. This approach underlines the chance of establishing a transcultural dialogue and tries to develop a new perspective on other border-crossing phenomena.

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Cancer Research Highlights: Tamoxifen's Risks Similar in African American and White Women

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e401312005-004 ◽

2004 ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Cancer Research ◽

African American ◽

White Women

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Religious Coping in African-American and White Women following Pregnancy Loss

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e679672012-007 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Efrat Eichenbaum ◽

Mitra Khaksari ◽

Pamela A. Geller

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Religious Coping ◽

Pregnancy Loss ◽

White Women

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African and African American Religions in the Early Americas

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190221171.013.26 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jason Young

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Belief Systems ◽

Subsequent Development ◽

Religious Practices ◽

African American Religion ◽

African Religion ◽

1960S And 1970S ◽

The 1960S ◽

New Generation ◽

The Relationship

This chapter chronicles the relationship between African religious practices on the continent and African American religion in the plantation Americas in the era of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. A new generation of scholars who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s have demonstrated not only that African religious practices exhibit remarkable subtlety and complexity but also that these cultures have played significant roles in the subsequent development of religious practices throughout the world. Christianity, Islam, and traditional African religion comprised a set of broad and varied religious practices that contributed to the development of creative, subtle, and complex belief systems that circulated around the African Diaspora. In addition, this chapter addresses some of the vexed epistemological challenges related to discussing and describing non-Western ritual and religious practices.

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Understanding low chemoprevention uptake by women at high risk of breast cancer: findings from a qualitative inductive study of women’s risk-reduction experiences

BMC Women s Health ◽

10.1186/s12905-021-01279-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Tasleem J. Padamsee ◽

Megan Hils ◽

Anna Muraveva

Keyword(s):

Breast Cancer ◽

African American ◽

High Risk ◽

Risk Reduction ◽

White Women ◽

Future Research ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Critical Gap ◽

High Risk Women ◽

Parent Project

Abstract Background Chemoprevention is one of several methods that have been developed to help high-risk women reduce their risk of breast cancer. Reasons for the low uptake of chemoprevention are poorly understood. This paper seeks a deeper understanding of this phenomenon by drawing on women’s own narratives about their awareness of chemoprevention and their risk-related experiences. Methods This research is based on a parent project that included fifty in-depth, semi-structured interviews with a purposive sample of African American and White women at elevated risk of breast cancer. This specific study draws on the forty-seven interviews conducted with women at high or severe risk of breast cancer, all of whom are eligible to use chemoprevention for breast cancer risk-reduction. Interviews were analyzed using grounded theory methods. Results Forty-five percent of participants, and only 21% of African American participants, were aware of chemoprevention options. Women who had seen specialists were more likely to be aware, particularly if they had ongoing specialist access. Aware and unaware women relied on different types of sources for prevention-related information. Those whose main source of information was a healthcare provider were more likely to know about chemoprevention. Aware women used more nuanced information gathering strategies and worried more about cancer. Women simultaneously considered all risk-reduction options they knew about. Those who knew about chemoprevention but were reluctant to use it felt this way for multiple reasons, having to do with potential side effects, perceived extreme-ness of the intervention, similarity to chemotherapy, unknown information about chemoprevention, and reluctance to take medications in general. Conclusions Lack of chemoprevention awareness is a critical gap in women’s ability to make health-protective choices. Future research in this field must consider complexities in both women’s perspectives on chemoprevention and the reasons they are reluctant to use it.

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AIDS Protection and Contraception among African American, Hispanic, and White Women

Health & Social Work ◽

10.1093/hsw/23.3.186 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 186-194 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

A. M. Hines ◽

K. L. Graves

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

White Women

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A prospective study of bone loss in African-American and white women--a clinical research center study.

The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism ◽

10.1210/jcem.81.8.8768857 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 81 (8) ◽

pp. 2948-2956

Author(s):

M M Luckey ◽

S Wallenstein ◽

R Lapinski ◽

D E Meier

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Bone Loss ◽

Clinical Research ◽

Prospective Study ◽

White Women ◽

Research Center ◽

Clinical Research Center ◽

A Prospective Study ◽

Center Study

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Race-Specific Association of Caesarean-Section Delivery with Body Size at Age 2 Years

Ethnicity & Disease ◽

10.18865/ed.26.1.61 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 61 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Andrea E Cassidy-Bushrow ◽

Ganesa Wegienka ◽

Suzanne Havstad ◽

Albert M. Levin ◽

Susan V. Lynch ◽

...

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Caesarean Section ◽

African American Women ◽

Birth Cohort ◽

Racial Differences ◽

White Women ◽

Specific Effect ◽

Delivery Mode ◽

Font Size ◽

African American Mothers

Objectives: African American children are at higher risk of obesity than White children and African American women are more likely to undergo caesarean-section (CS) delivery than White women. CS is associated with childhood obesity, however, little is known whether this relationship varies by race.We examined if the association of CS with obesity at age 2 years varied by race. Design: Longitudinal birth cohort.Setting: Birth cohort conducted in a health care system in metropolitan Detroit, Michigan with follow-up at age 2 years.Participants: 639 birth cohort participants; 367 children (57.4%) were born to African American mothers and 230 (36.0%) children were born via CS.Main Outcome Measure: Obesity defined as body mass index ≥95th percentile at age 2 years.Results: Slightly more children of African American (n=37; 10.1%) than non-African American mothers (n=18; 6.6%) were obese (P=.12). There was evidence of effect modification between race and delivery mode with obesity at age 2 years (interaction P=.020). In children of African-American mothers, CS compared to vaginal birth was associated with a significantly higher odds of obesity (aOR=2.35 (95% CI: 1.16, 4.77), P=.017). In contrast, delivery mode was not associated with obesity at age 2 years in children of non-African-American mothers (aOR=.47 (95% CI: .13, 1.71), P=.25). Conclusions: There is evidence for a race-specific effect of CS on obesity at age 2 years; potential underlying mechanisms may be racial differences in the developing gut microbiome or in epigenetic programming. Future research is needed to determine if this racial difference persists into later childhood. Ethn Dis. 2016;26(1):61-68; doi:10.18865/ed.26.1.61

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Cardiovascular and Metabolic Risk in Women in the First Year Postpartum: Allostatic Load as a Function of Race, Ethnicity, and Poverty Status

American Journal of Perinatology ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1675618 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 36 (10) ◽

pp. 1079-1089 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Madeleine U. Shalowitz ◽

Christine Dunkel Schetter ◽

Marianne M. Hillemeier ◽

Vernon M. Chinchilli ◽

Emma K. Adam ◽

...

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Child Health ◽

African American Women ◽

Low Income ◽

Allostatic Load ◽

White Women ◽

Disease Risk ◽

Community Sample ◽

Density Lipoprotein ◽

First Year

Objective Allostatic load (AL) represents multisystem physiological “wear-and-tear” reflecting emerging chronic disease risk. We assessed AL during the first year postpartum in a diverse community sample with known health disparities. Study Design The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development Community Child Health Network enrolled 2,448 predominantly low-income African-American, Latina, and White women immediately after delivery of liveborn infants at ≥20 weeks' gestation, following them over time with interviews, clinical measures, and biomarkers. AL at 6 and 12 months postpartum was measured by body mass index, waist:hip ratio, blood pressure, pulse, hemoglobin A1c, high-sensitive C-reactive protein, total cholesterol and high-density lipoprotein, and diurnal cortisol slope. Results Adverse AL health-risk profiles were significantly more prevalent among African-American women compared with non-Hispanic Whites, with Latinas intermediate. Breastfeeding was protective, particularly for White women. Complications of pregnancy were associated with higher AL, and disparities persisted or worsened through the first year postpartum. Conclusion Adverse AL profiles occurred in a substantial proportion of postpartum women, and disparities did not improve from birth to 1 year. Breastfeeding was protective for the mother.

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Gwendolyn Bennett's “The Ebony Flute”

PMLA ◽

10.1632/pmla.2013.128.3.744 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 128 (3) ◽

pp. 744-755

Author(s):

Belinda Wheeler

Keyword(s):

Short Stories ◽

African American ◽

Coming Out ◽

Harlem Renaissance ◽

Detailed Examination ◽

Langston Hughes ◽

Black Artists ◽

Assistant Editor ◽

Cover Art ◽

The Harlem Renaissance

IntroductionGwendolyn Bennett (1902-81) is often mentioned in books that discuss the harlem renaissance, and some of her poems Occasionally appear in poetry anthologies; but much of her career has been overlooked. Along with many of her friends, including Jessie Redmond Fauset, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen, Bennett was featured at the National Urban League's Civic Club Dinner in March 1924, an event that would later be “widely hailed as a ‘coming out party’ for young black artists, writers, and intellectuals whose work would come to define the Harlem Renaissance” (McHenry 383n100). In the next five years Bennett published over forty poems, short stories, and reviews in leading African American magazines and anthologies, such as Cullen's Caroling Dusk (1927) and William Stanley Braithwaite's Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1927; she created magazine cover art that adorned two leading African American periodicals, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races and the National Urban League's Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life; she worked as an editor or assistant editor of several magazines, including Opportunity, Black Opals, and Fire!; and she wrote a renowned literary column, “The Ebony Flute.” Many scholars, such as Cary Wintz, Abby Arthur Johnson and Ronald Maberry Johnson, and Elizabeth McHenry, recognized the importance of Bennett's column to the Harlem Renaissance in their respective studies, but their emphasis on a larger Harlem Renaissance discussion did not afford a detailed examination of her column.

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