Good booty : love and sex, black & white, body and soul in American music / Ann Powers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powers, Ann, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--United States--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Music--Social aspects.

United States.

Music--Social aspects--United States--History and criticism.

Music.

MUSIC / History & Criticism.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.

HISTORY / Social History.

Local Subjects:

MUSIC / History & Criticism.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.

HISTORY / Social History.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2017]

Summary:

"In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR's acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race."--Provided by publisher.

"In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR's acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate both emotionally and truthfully about our most fraught social issues, sex and race. In Good Booty, Ann Powers explores how popular music became America's primary erotic art form. She takes us from nineteenth-century New Orleans through dance-crazed Jazz Age New York to the teen scream years of mid-twentieth-century rock and roll and the cutting-edge adventures of today's viral pop stars. Drawing on her deep knowledge of gender and sexuality, Powers recounts stories of forbidden lovers, wild shimmy-shakers, orgasmic gospel singers, countercultural perverts, soft-rock sensitivos, punk Puritans, and the cyborg known as Britney Spears to illuminate how eroticism--not merely sex, but love, bodily freedom, and liberating joy--became entwined within the rhythms and melodies of American song. This cohesion, she reveals, touches the heart of America's anxieties and hopes about race, feminism, marriage, youth, and freedom. Spanning more than a century of music, Powers both heralds little-known artists--such as Florence Mills, a contemporary of Josephine Baker, and gospel queen Dorothy Love Coates--and sheds new light on artists we think we know well, from the Beatles and Jim Morrison to Madonna and Beyoncé. In telling the history of how American popular music and sexuality intersect, Good Booty--Powers's magnum opus over two decades in the making--offers new insights into our national psyche and our soul."--Jacket.

Contents:

The taboo baby: New Orleans, 1800-1900

That da da strain: shimmying, shaking, sexology: New York, 1900-1929

Let it breathe on me: spiritual erotics: Chicago, Birmingham, Memphis, 1929-1956

Teen dreams and grown-up urges: the American heartland, 1950-1960

The sexual revolution and its discontents: New York, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, 1961-1970

Hard and soft realities: London, Los Angeles, New York, 1971-1979

Oh no, it hurts: AIDS, Reagan, and the backlash: New York, San Francisco, Seattle, 1977-1997

Hungry cyborgs: Britney, Beyoncé, and the virtual frontier: Cyberspace, 1999-2016.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-384) and index.

ISBN:

9780062463692

0062463691

OCLC:

981576251