Sounding Like a No-No Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era
This book traces a rebellious spirit in post-civil rights Black music by focusing on a range of offbeat, eccentric, queer, or slippery performances by leading musicians influenced by the cultural changes brought about by the civil rights, Black nationalist, feminist, and LGBTQ movements, who through...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press
2013.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009754399906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Eccentric performance and embodied music in the post-soul moment
- Becoming post-soul : Eartha Kitt, the Stranger, and the melancholy pleasures of racial reinvention
- Stevie Wonder's "Quare" teachings and cross-species collaboration in Journey through the secret life of plants and other songs
- "Here's a chance to dance our way out of our constrictions" : P-Funk's Black masculinity and the performance of imaginative freedom
- Michael Jackson, queer world making, and the trans erotics of voice, gender, and age
- "Feeling like a woman, looking like a man, sounding like a no-no" : Grace Jones and the performance of "Strangé" in the post-soul moment
- Funking toward the future in Meshell Ndegeocello's The world has made me the man of my dreams
- Epilogue : Janelle Monáe's collective vision.
