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Destructive desires : rhythm and blues culture and the politics of racial equality / Robert J. Patterson.
LIBRA ML3917.U6 P37 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Patterson, Robert J. (Robert John), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rhythm and blues music--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Rhythm and blues music.
- Rhythm and blues music--Political aspects--United States--History.
- Rhythm and blues music--History and criticism.
- African Americans--Attitudes.
- African Americans.
- History.
- Social aspects.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 246 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- Preface : RJP and the rhythm and blues imagination
- Introduction : (Re)Reading destructive desires and cultural longings in post-Civil Rights Era rhythm and blues culture, life, and politics
- Reading race, gender, and sex : Black intimate relations, black inequality, and the rhythm and blues imagination
- "Whip appeal" : Reading Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds
- "Freak like me" : Reading Adina Howard
- "Didn't we almost have it all?" : Reading Whitney Houston
- Epilogue : "It's just another sad love song" : Reading Toni Braxton
- Appendices. Select list of Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds's song ; Select awards and honors ; Robert J. Patterson interviews Adina Houston.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781978803596
- 1978803591
- 9781978803589
- 1978803583
- OCLC:
- 1041193869
- Publisher Number:
- 99980987475
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