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POUSSEZ!

Vinyl Record Clock | $60.00. Released in 1979 by Vanguard Records. In a time when black musicians were enormously influential, they were still controlled by white executives, labels, and marketing departments. Black studio singers would provide the actual voices, while unnamed white models became the public image. Just as the record POUSSEZ! Depicts. Their appearance made the album seem more marketable to white Americans and European disco buyers. Christine Wiltshire and Holly Oas made this album come to life.This clock depicts a time when Black women could be heard everywhere and still be pushed out of sight. The women pictured on the cover were visible to everyone, yet their names were left out of the story too. The singers gave the record its sound, the models the face. The label could sell both, while the women behind them remained largely unknown.