Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll Springsteen and a belief in the

and a belief in the artistic legitimacy of chronicling everyday life and eccentricity on the street

a musician in her own right -- and Richard Fariña

Those that seem to speak to us and us alone

something with no fixed identity

Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll Springsteen and a belief in theAuthor: Maureen Mahon African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll from laying its foundations and singing chart topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been diminished by narratives of rock as a mostly white male enterprise. In Black Diamond Queens, Maureen Mahon draws on recordings, press coverage, archival materials, and interviews to