title: Identifying blues: an interview with lesbian blues musician and lyricist Gaye Adegbalola. Interview by Carmen Phelps.
abstract: In this interview, blues lyricist and musician Gaye Adegbalola shares with audiences how various political, social, and artistic influences have inspired her work since her activist years during the Black Arts Movement leading up to the present day. As a lesbian blues artist, Adegbalola's personal and artistic development implicates the often inextricable and intimate relationships between artistic production, political involvement, and individual fulfillment.
authors.affiliation: Department of English Literature and Languages, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA.
authors.forename: Gaye
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Adegbalola
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D009146:Music / Q000523:psychology; D014481:United States