Episode Notes Tina Turner always commanded the audience’s attention—with her dancing, energy, and rich singing voice.  In this episode, we explore Tina Turner’s career and learn how she became known as “The Queen of Rock.” Her genius as a performer who couldn’t be placed in a genre is clear, and her courage and impact extended far beyond the stage.  Find more information at s.si.edu/collected.  Guests Daphne Brooks, Ph.D., 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). https://afamstudies.yale.edu/people/daphne-brooks Margo Jefferson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and a 2022 recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction. Her most recent book is Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir (2022). She is a professor of Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University. https://arts.columbia.edu/profiles/margo-jefferson Portia K. Maultsby, Ph.D., is professor emerita of ethnomusicology at Indiana University. She is the author of numerous books and articles and was the founder and first director of the Archives of African American Music and Culture. Dr. Maultsby led Carnegie Hall’s comprehensive, online resource, the Timeline of African American Music.  https://folklore.indiana.edu/about/emeriti-faculty/maultsby-portia.html Crystal M. Moten, Ph.D. is a historian who specializes in twentieth century African American Women’s History. In 2023 she published Continually Working: Black Women, Community Intellectualism, and Economic Justice in Postwar Milwaukee. Dr. Moten is the Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Obama Presidential Center Museum in Chicago, Illinois and was previously curator at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History https://www.crystalmoten.com Dwandalyn R. Reece, Ph.D., is curator of Music and Performing Arts at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Dr. Reece curated the museum’s permanent exhibition, Musical Crossroads, for which she received the Secretary’s Research Prize in 2017.   https://music.si.edu/dr-dwandalyn-reece     Fath Davis Ruffins was a curator of African American History at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH). She began working at the museum in 1981, and between 1988 and 2005, she was the head of the Collection of Advertising History at the NMAH Archives Center. Ruffins was the original project director of Many Voices, One Nation, an exhibition that opened at NMAH in June 2017. She was leading a museum project on the history and culture of the Low Country region of the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida.   https://profiles.si.edu/display/nruffinsf1102006