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Tango Lessons : Movement, Sound, Image, and Text in Contemporary Practice /

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Sounding Like a No-No : Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era / by Royster, Francesca T.

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.…”
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Improvisation and Social Aesthetics /

Table of Contents: “…After relational aesthetics : improvised music, the social, and (re)theorizing the aesthetic / Georgina Born -- Scripting social interaction : improvisation, performance, and Western "art" music / Nicholas Cook -- From the American civil rights movement to Mali : reflections on social aesthetics and improvisation / Ingrid Monson -- From network bands to ubiquitous computing : Rich Gold and the social aesthetics of interactivity / George E. …”
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