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Sounding like a no-no?

Royster, Francesca T.

Sounding like a no-no? queer sounds and eccentric acts in the post-soul era / [electronic resource] : Francesca T. Royster. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (272 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 "Strang" 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 Mon e's collective vision.

9780472028917


Soul music.
Popular music--Social aspects.


Electronic books.

ML3918.P67 / R69 2013

781.640973