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Author Royster, Francesca T., author.

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

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
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Bibliography 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.
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Subject Popular music -- Social aspects.
Popular music -- Social aspects.
Popular music.
Soul music.
Soul music.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Royster, Francesca T. Sounding like a no-no. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2013 9780472071791 (DLC) 2012033639 (OCoLC)793221913
ISBN 047202891X (electronic book)
9780472028917 (electronic book)
9780472071791 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0472071793 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780472051793 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0472051792 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. ebc3415117
10.3998/mpub.1586114