Sounding Like a No No : Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post Soul Era /
Sounding Like a No-Notraces 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,...
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2023
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Table of Contents:
- 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 "Strange" 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.