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dc.contributor.authorRoyster, Francesca
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-27T13:59:54Z
dc.date.available2023-07-27T13:59:54Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifierONIX_20230727_9780472904150_69
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64178
dc.description.abstractSounding Like a No-No traces a rebellious spirit in post–civil rights black music by focusing on a range of offbeat, eccentric, queer, or slippery performances by leading musicians influenced by the cultural changes brought about by the civil rights, black nationalist, feminist, and LGBTQ movements, who through reinvention created a repertoire of performances that have left a lasting mark on popular music. The book's innovative readings of performers including Michael Jackson, Grace Jones, Stevie Wonder, Eartha Kitt, and Meshell Ndegeocello demonstrate how embodied sound and performance became a means for creativity, transgression, and social critique, a way to reclaim imaginative and corporeal freedom from the social death of slavery and its legacy of racism, to engender new sexualities and desires, to escape the sometimes constrictive codes of respectability and uplift from within the black community, and to make space for new futures for their listeners. The book's perspective on music as a form of black corporeality and identity, creativity, and political engagement will appeal to those in African American studies, popular music studies, queer theory, and black performance studies; general readers will welcome its engaging, accessible, and sometimes playful writing style, including elements of memoir.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groupsen_US
dc.subject.otherMusic
dc.subject.otherAmerican Studies
dc.subject.otherTheater and Performance
dc.subject.otherGender Studies
dc.subject.otherRace and Ethnicity
dc.subject.otherAfrican American Studies
dc.titleSounding Like a No No
dc.title.alternativeQueer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post Soul Era
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.3998/mpub.1586114
oapen.relation.isPublishedBye07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889
oapen.relation.isFundedByb5941080-3f20-4864-95c6-753acff7c9f4
oapen.relation.isbn9780472904150
oapen.relation.isbn9780472004126
oapen.relation.isbn9780472071791
oapen.relation.isbn9780472051793
oapen.collectionBig Ten Open Books
oapen.place.publicationAnn Arbor
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oapen.grant.programBig Ten Open Books
oapen.grant.projectBig Ten Open Books — Gender and Sexuality Studies Collection


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