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Sounding like a no-no : queer sounds and eccentric acts in the post-soul era
- Title
- Sounding like a no-no : queer sounds and eccentric acts in the post-soul era / Francesca T. Royster.
- Author
- Royster, Francesca T.
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2013.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 256 p.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 "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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 13-305
- ISBN
- 9780472071791 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0472071793 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780472051793 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0472051792 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780472028917 (e-book)
- 047202891X (e-book)
- LCCN
- 2012033639
- 40021844766
- OCLC
- 793221913
- Author
- Royster, Francesca T.
- Title
- Sounding like a no-no : queer sounds and eccentric acts in the post-soul era / Francesca T. Royster.
- Imprint
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2013.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40021844766
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 13-305