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This paper aims to create a dialectical analysis between the industry politics that suppressed Davis during her heyday and the present-day curation practice that attempts to re-package Davis through reissue. This paper argues that Davis was an artistic innovator and progressive social figure whose aesthetic ideas and practices, although marginalized during the 1970s, are now being celebrated in mainstream popular music. Contemporary popular music performers are regularly praised for their unapologetic displays of sexuality, non-binary gender performances, and breaking racialized genre boundaries; these are the very ideals that led to the marginalization of Davis. Davis’ music and musical persona pointed to a certain social consciousness that has been newly articulated in recent years. It is a sex positive, queer, anti-racist, and otherwise unapologetic consciousness that embraces the erotic as a vital source of power and knowledge. Therefore, I claim Betty Davis is what I call an erotic intellectual who communicated, documented and performed a pleasure centered poetics of artistic power that envisioned more liberated and inclusive audiences. Moreover, through exclusive access, this paper will center the voice of Davis herself who recently passed away in 2022 at the age of seventy-seven.                                                                        \u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eThis paper is structured around Pittsburgh musician Betty Davis, whose albums from the 1970s were reissued on Light In The Attic record label in 2007 to a wave of critical acclaim. The re-release of Davis' studio albums cemented the \"cult\" status of the singer who was once ridiculed and boycotted for her sexually dominant lyrics and physically suggestive live performances. This paper aims to create a dialectical analysis between the industry politics that suppressed Davis during her heyday and the present-day curation practice that attempts to re-package Davis through reissue. This paper argues that Davis was an artistic innovator and progressive social figure whose aesthetic ideas and practices, although marginalized during the 1970s, are now being celebrated in mainstream popular music. Contemporary popular music performers are regularly praised for their unapologetic displays of sexuality, non-binary gender performances, and breaking racialized genre boundaries; these are the very ideals that led to the marginalization of Davis. Davis\u0026rsquo; music and musical persona pointed to a certain social consciousness that has been newly articulated in recent years. It is a sex positive, queer, anti-racist, and otherwise unapologetic consciousness that embraces the erotic as a vital source of power and knowledge. Therefore, I claim Betty Davis is what I call an erotic intellectual who communicated, documented and performed a pleasure centered poetics of artistic power that envisioned more liberated and inclusive audiences. 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