Sounding like a no-no : queer sounds and eccentric acts in the post-soul era / Francesca T. Royster.

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Main Author: Royster, Francesca T.
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2013], ©2013.
Subjects:
Popular music > Social aspects.
Soul music.
Physical Description:viii, 256 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
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.