Sounding like a no-no queer sounds and eccentric acts in the post-soul era

Black popular music and offbeat performance, from Eartha Kitt to Meshell Ndegeocello.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Royster, Francesca T. (-)
Autor Corporativo: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan) publisher (publisher)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press c2013.
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
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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.