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Sounding like a no-no : queer sounds and eccentric acts in the post-soul era / Francesca T. Royster.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Royster, Francesca T.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--Social aspects.
- Popular music.
- Soul music.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2013.
- 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 "Strangé" 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472028917
- 047202891X
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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