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Prince's Minneapolis : a biography of sound and place / Rashad Shabazz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shabazz, Rashad, 1976- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minnesota.
- Prince.
- African Americans--Minnesota--Minneapolis--Music--History and criticism.
- African Americans.
- Musicians--Minnesota--Minneapolis--Biography.
- Musicians.
- Popular music--Minnesota--Minneapolis--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- African Americans--Music.
- Minnesota--Minneapolis.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- "When nineteen-year-old Prince took the stage to perform “I Wanna Be Your Lover” on American Bandstand, those who watched couldn’t reconcile how Prince’s funky disco-pop sounds had hailed from a place like Minneapolis. But the Minneapolis Sound, Prince’s signature pop-musical fusion of funk, R&B, rock, punk, and new wave, did not emerge from a vacuum. The place and space of Minneapolis shaped the musical ecosystem that made Prince famous. And in turn, a complex array of social forces shaped the city’s soundscape. An expert on place, race, and culture, geographer Rashad Shabazz reveals the hidden history of the Minneapolis Sound, Prince, and Prince’s beloved city. More than a biography of Prince, this is a biography of the city and the world of sound from which Prince emerged. Shabazz traces the history of the Minneapolis Sound alongside the city’s history, from colonial contact through periods of Indigenous removal, white settlement, mass migration, industrialization, music education, suburbanization, and systemic racism. This complex history, combined with the exceptional talent cultivated in Minneapolis’s small Black communities, gave rise to a groundbreaking genre, the otherworldly legend that was Prince, and music that captivated the world"-- JSTOR.
- Contents:
- Preface : ’Cause I was your boyfriend
- Introduction : This is not the kind of music that comes from Minneapolis
- White settlement and the birth of the Minneapolis sound
- The waterfall that built a city
- Musical city
- Segregating Minneapolis
- Musical apartheid
- That distinctively dirty Minneapolis funk
- School days
- The rooms where it happened
- Planning, punk, and indie rock downtown
- Making a different sound, part I
- Making a different sound, part II
- 1984
- Another very experimental kind of record
- Masterpiece of Minneapolis
- Moving the Minneapolis sound.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed March 11, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Shabazz, Rashad, 1976- Prince's Minneapolis
- ISBN:
- 9781469690988
- 1469690985
- 978I469683256
- 9781469690971
- 1469690977
- OCLC:
- 1570338983
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000330119
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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