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Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop by Danyel Smith

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informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

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As a veteran music journalist, Danyel Smith has had (and still does have) an undeniable impact on the culture and music journalism as a whole. Her entire career has set a journalistic precedent that I’m not sure anyone else could meet. She has interviewed and written articles about some of the foremost artists across musical genres, mainly black and brown artists, of the last 60 years over her 30+ year career. 
 
Can she write? Duh. 
Does she have great taste in music? Duh. 
Did this book require countless hours of writing, organizing, and fact-checking? Without a doubt. 
Does she excel in providing several examples and giving context to the repeated erasure of Black musical artistry over the history of popular music? Yes. 
 
When the synopsis says, “A weave of biography, criticism, and memoir,” did this necessarily work in practice? No.  
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