Ep. 216 Shine Bright by Danyel Smith - The Stacks Book Club (Novena Carmel)
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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It's The Stacks Book Club Day! Novena Carmel, musician and cohost of KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic, joins us again to unpack Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop by Danyel Smith. We talk about Danyel as a cultural icon, what it takes to be a superstar. and the joy of disco as a threat to whiteness.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, the live in the stack store is on its last leg literally. We only have one show left |
| 0:08.5 | Join me in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 18th with three of my favorite ever podcast guests and friends of this show |
| 0:16.2 | We are gonna be joined by Rachel Lindsey. Yes, that Rachel Lindsey the first black bachelor at also |
| 0:22.2 | She is an author a podcaster a TV host and a wonderful human being |
| 0:26.4 | We're gonna be joined by Sam Sanders podcast host journalist and I think arguably the cultural critic of our time and |
| 0:33.7 | The wonderful hilarious and super duper smart Chelsea Devantes who is an any nominated TV writer, comedian director and of course the host of |
| 0:42.6 | Glamrs trash formerly known as the celebrity book club podcast |
| 0:46.6 | We are going to have a blast bringing this tour to a close and not to mention that our friends from reparations book club |
| 0:52.6 | One of my favorite bookstores here in L.A. is curating a pop-up bookshop of our dreams |
| 0:57.7 | It's not too late to get your tickets head to the stacks podcast dot com slash tour before they sell out |
| 1:14.8 | Welcome to the stacks a podcast about books and the people who read them |
| 1:17.9 | I'm your host Tracy Thomas and it is may book club day |
| 1:22.1 | We're welcoming back DJ and musician Novena Carmel who's the co-host of one of my favorite radio shows KCR |
| 1:28.5 | W's flagship morning becomes eclectic |
| 1:31.5 | We're talking today about our maple club pick shine bright a very personal history of black women in pop by Danielle Smith |
| 1:38.0 | We talk about the eraser of black women the people who suck the light out of the joy of black women and |
| 1:45.0 | We talk about disco my favorite if you like what you hear today |
| 1:49.1 | Be sure to go back to last week's episode with author Danielle Smith for even more juicy goodness on shine bright |
| 1:56.2 | Quick reminder everything we talk about on each episode of the stacks can be found in the link in the show notes |
| 2:02.8 | If you love the show and want more of it join the stacks back |
| 2:05.5 | That's our exclusive community for all of you book lovers out there |
| 2:08.5 | We have an awesome discord channel monthly virtual book club conversations bonus episodes |
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