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Oscars 2021: Hollywood may earn brownie points for diversity, but still lags behind in celebrating Black women's musicality
FirstpostOscar history has been made, again. As much as Hollywood is changing, the way it tells the story of Black women’s musicality still lags behind. The film doesn’t go into any of that, she noted, “and that’s where the courage is, right?” The tension between Black women’s personal traumas and their musical talent also drives much of the plot in National Geographic’s television miniseries, Genius: Aretha and the HBO documentary about Tina Turner, Tina. The first half of this documentary focuses on Turner, born Anna Mae Bullock, learning how to sing as a teenager in a Black Baptist church, joining Ike Turner’s band in the late 1950s and surviving the extreme emotional abuse and violence that he, as her husband and musical partner, inflicted on her for more than 16 years. Still from Soul Ultimately, it is another Oscar-nominated film that offers up the most unencumbered depiction of Black women’s musical virtuosity: Soul, the animated Pixar film, with its revered jazz saxophonist Dorothea Williams.
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