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<p>Beyoncé is one of the most well-known and appreciated Black women in music today, but to understand her work, we need to look at who came before her and what those women contributed to the story of Black women on stage. In this special guest episode, curator Krystal Klingenberg introduces a new season of Collected, a podcast from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, all about Black women in music. </p><p><strong>Guests:</strong></p><p><strong>Daphne A. Brooks, PhD.,</strong> is professor of African American Studies and Music at Yale University. Dr. Brooks most recent books is Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (Harvard University, February 2021). <a href="https://afamstudies.yale.edu/people/daphne-brooks"><strong>https://afamstudies.yale.edu/people/daphne-brooks</strong></a> </p><p><strong>Margo Jefferson</strong> is a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, and a 2022 recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction. Her mo...