Kandia Crazy Horse
{{short description|American singer-songwriter}}
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Kandia Crazy Horse is an American country musician, rock critic and writer. She has written for The Village Voice, is the editor of Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock 'n' Roll,{{Cite journal|title = Crazy Horse, Kandia, ed. Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock 'n' Roll. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003|journal = Journal of Popular Music Studies|date = 2005-12-01|issn = 1533-1598|pages = 352–361|volume = 17|issue = 3|doi = 10.1111/j.1524-2226.2005.0049b.x|language = en|first = Michael J.|last = Kramer}} and also writes for Creative Loafing,{{Cite news|url = http://articles.latimes.com/2007/aug/25/entertainment/et-book25/2|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151124015633/http://articles.latimes.com/2007/aug/25/entertainment/et-book25/2|url-status = dead|archive-date = November 24, 2015|title = Picking a Soundtrack for Eternity|last = Himmelsbach|first = Erik|date = 25 August 2007|work = Los Angeles Times|access-date = 13 January 2016}} and The Guardian.{{Cite news|url = https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/jan/08/donny-hathaway-rocks-backpages|title = Donny Hathaway: A Soul Man Who Departed Too Soon|last = Crazy Horse|first = Kandia|date = 8 January 2014|work = The Guardian|access-date = 11 January 2016}} Her country music debut, Stampede, was released in 2013.{{Cite news|url = http://www.blacknews.com/news/kandia_crazy_horse_new_black_country_artist101.shtml|title = She's Country Strong and She Is Black!|last = Holloway|first = Marvin|date = 26 August 2013|work = Black News.com|access-date = 11 January 2016}} Crazy Horse is based in New York.{{Cite news|url = http://news.nationalpost.com/arts/stars-and-barred-for-southern-rockers-and-country-singers-the-confederate-flag-is-an-uncomfortable-heritage|title = Stars and Barred: For Southern Rockers and Country Singers, the Confederate Flag is an Uncomfortable Heritage|last = Boesveld|first = Sarah|date = 26 June 2015|work = National Post|access-date = 11 January 2016}}
Career
When Crazy Horse began as a music journalist, she states that she was considered a "novelty" because "a black, young female wasn't the picture of a rock critic."{{Cite news|url = http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nfh&AN=6FP2827907841&site=ehost-live|title = Black Culture Critique|last = Infantry|first = Ashante|date = 22 July 2004|work = Toronto Star|access-date = 11 January 2016|via = EBSCO |url-access=subscription}} Her work as a rock critic is feminist in tone and often focuses on Southern rock.{{Cite journal|url = https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/women_and_music/v012/12.brooks.html|title = The Write to Rock: Racial Mythologies, Feminist Theory, and the Pleasures of Rock Music Criticism|last = Brooks|first = Daphne A.|date = 2008|journal = Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture|doi = 10.1353/wam.0.0002|access-date = 13 January 2016|volume = 12|issue = 1|pages = 54–62 |s2cid = 191429506|url-access=subscription |via = Project Muse}} She has also emphasized black contributions to rock music.{{Cite web|url = http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/e-misferica-52/nyongo|title = Musical Miscegenation? Rock Music and the History of Sex|access-date = 13 January 2016|website = Hemispheric Institute|last = Nyong'o|first = Tavia}}
Crazy Horse edited Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock 'n' Roll (2004). The collection of essays analyzed black figures in rock in order to bring to light the "black experience in rock 'n' roll."{{Cite book|title = Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race|last = Mahon|first = Maureen|publisher = Duke University Press|year = 2004|isbn = 9780822333173|pages = [https://archive.org/details/righttorockblack0000maho/page/262 262]|url = https://archive.org/details/righttorockblack0000maho|url-access = registration|quote = kandia crazy horse.}} Rip It Up describes how black rock isn't considered part of the black music scene and therefore its "impact has been minimized."{{Cite journal|url = https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_drama_review/v050/50.1nyongo.pdf|title = Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock 'n' Roll, and: Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race, and: Afropunk: The "Rock 'n' Roll Nigger" Experience (review)|last = Ochieng' Nyongó|first = Tavia Amolo|date = 2006|journal = TDR: The Drama Review|access-date = 13 January 2016|volume = 50|issue = 1|pages = 183–187 |url-access=subscription |via = Project Muse}}
She received an Anschutz Distinguished Fellowship in American Studies from Princeton University during 2008 and 2009.{{Cite web|url = http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Writer/kandia-crazy-horse|title = Kandia Crazy Horse|access-date = 13 January 2016|website = Rock's Backpages Library}} While she was a fellow at Princeton, she taught the course "Roll Over Beethoven: Black Rock and Cultural Revolt."{{Cite news |title = 'Reclaiming Right to Rock' Conference at IU Examines Black Experiences in Rock Music |date = 21 October 2009|work = States News Service}}
Crazy Horse's debut album, Stampede, contains original songs by Crazy Horse and cover songs.{{Cite news|url = http://www.villagevoice.com/music/2014s-top-country-albums-prove-the-musics-flourishing-radio-be-damned-6656855|title = 2014's Top Country Albums Prove the Music's Flourishing, Radio Be Damned|last = Scherstuhl|first = Alan|date = 15 December 2014|work = The Village Voice|access-date = 11 January 2016}} The style of music on the record is traditional country music.{{Cite news|url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-souleo-wright/slam-15th-anniversary_b_4388337.html|title = On the 'A' w/ Souleo: Spoken Word Film 'Slam' Celebrates 15th Anniversary|last = Wright|first = Peter 'Souleo'|date = 6 December 2013|work = The Huffington Post|access-date = 13 January 2016}} Acoustic Guitar called her album "stunning" and a "powerful musical debut."{{Cite news |title = Kandia Crazy Horse|last = von Nagel|first = Amber|date = 1 April 2014|work = Acoustic Guitar}} Blurt called her voice "sweet and soulful" and praised her writing that revitalizes familiar country music sounds.{{Cite web|url = http://blurtonline.com/review/kandia-crazy-horse-stampede/|title = Kandia Crazy Horse - Stampede|date = 21 January 2014|access-date = 13 January 2016|website = Blurt|last = D'Amore|first = Nick}}
References
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External links
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- [http://kandiacrazyhorse.com/ Official site]
- [http://rockcriticsarchives.com/interviews/kandiacrazyhorse/kandiacrazyhorse.html Interview]
- [http://www.villagevoice.com/authors/kandia-crazy-horse-6354715 Articles from The Village Voice]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDfJqqPuu3E California] (video)
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Category:American country singer-songwriters
Category:American women country singers
Category:American music critics
Category:American women music critics
Category:21st-century African-American women writers
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:21st-century African-American writers
Category:The Village Voice people
Category:Writers from New York City
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:American women non-fiction writers
Category:Country musicians from New York (state)
Category:21st-century African-American women singers
Category:21st-century American women singers