Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in PopSlightly damaged. Top right corner of the cover page was bent. Author: Danyel Smith American pop music is arguably this countrys greatest cultural contribution to the world, and its singular voice and virtuosity were created by a shining thread of Black women geniuses stretching back to the countrys founding. This is their surprising, heartbreaking, soaring storyfrom one of the generations greatest, most insightful, most nuanced writers in pop culture