Daphne A. Brooks is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Center for African-American Studies at Princeton University where she teaches courses on African-American literature and culture, performance studies, critical gender studies, and popular music culture. She is the author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 (Duke University Press, 2006).
Such inspiration is seen in Brooks' current book project, ‘Jeff
Buckley's Grace,'... The book will examine the legacy of the
singer-guitarist, who only released one full-length studio album
but had amassed a cult following before he drowned at the age of
30.
*Princeton Weekly Bulletin*
...Daphne Brooks reveals and obsession- so intense it'll make you
blanche- with the late Jeff Buckley.
*Philadelphia Weekly*
I had been waiting and looking for this sound all of my own life,’
writes Daphne Brooks in the introduction to her book on Jeff
Buckley’s debut album. She writes about nursing an intense
emotional connection to Grace, which she admits is ‘the most
unlikely muse for my American black girl experience.’ That is,
however, not her conclusion, but a starting point for the book that
tries to ascertain the nature of that bond … She delves deep enough
to find new perspectives on the music, but fortunately not so deep
that she dissolves the strange power of this mystery white boy.
*Pitchfork*
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