Comments on: WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?: A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal, by Laina Dawes

By: Learning How To Breathe: On Laina Dawes‚Äô What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman‚Äôs Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal | Natalie Zed

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:36:53 +0000

[…] that threatens to make Dawes fell unwelcome when listening to the music that she loves. Her book, What Are You Doing Here?, has the force of a powerful, eloquent typhoon, seeking to create a space where people of colour, […]

By: Laina Dawes Talks Being a Black, Female, Heavy Metal Fan in New Book | The Write Life

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:34:06 +0000

[…] Listen to the full NPR interview here and purchase and autographed copy of Laina‚Äôs book here. […]

By: Rabbit

Rabbit — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:33:49 +0000

I hug you, since you are clearly my Distant Twin. Turns out, there’s a lot of us, we’re just… widely scattered. 😀

By: Music Critic Speaks Out About the Racial Divide in Music ¬´ URBAN WHIM

Music Critic Speaks Out About the Racial Divide in Music ¬´ URBAN WHIM — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:33:30 +0000

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By: What Are You Doing Here?: Book on Black Women in Metal | MetalSucks

What Are You Doing Here?: Book on Black Women in Metal | MetalSucks — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:33:02 +0000

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By: Deonsdreaming

Deonsdreaming — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:32:32 +0000

It’s sad that whites feel that they “own” rock music. Particularly if you know for a fact that rock music came from black artist! Goree Carter, Willie Johnson, Chuck Berry, Ike Turner, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and many many more before whites ever knew how to play that way. But it’s typical of what whites do, I remember in the early 80’s when rap was the music that blacks and latinos listen too. White kids didn’t like it or understand it, and many of them talked of the day when rap music would die because none of the rappers played instruments. Well here we are in 2013 and what do you see? Little white kids in pickup trucks in the backwoods of the south blasting rap music! They even dress like their favorite rappers! So don’t ever feel that you are less than! Because you are more than! Peace

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:31:01 +0000

I heard your radio interview on npr.org last night and I was intrigued. Speaking as a light skinned black woman who grew up in an Afrocentric area but raised herself on a diet of Star Wars, Harry Potter and other Sfi/Fantasy genres it was refreshing to hear that black females do rock! I am definitely getting your book.

By: Author / photographer Laina Dawes recounts favorite shows of 2012 ¬´ stream

Author / photographer Laina Dawes recounts favorite shows of 2012 ¬´ stream — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:30:42 +0000

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A Metalhead‚Äôs Holiday Gift Guide | Hellbound.ca — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:30:21 +0000

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By: Metal Multiculturalism | Souciant

Metal Multiculturalism | Souciant — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:29:56 +0000

[…] Laina Dawes‚Äô book What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman‚Äôs Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal I found my curiosity about black metal fans both validated and rejected. Validated because the very […]