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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主要作者: Royster, Francesca T. (Author)
格式: 電子 電子書
語言:英语
出版: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2013]
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書本目錄:
  • 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.