| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 142 pages). |
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| Series |
Tracking pop
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Tracking pop.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-142) and index. |
| Summary |
Notions of hip hop authenticity, as expressed both within hip hop communities and in the larger American culture, rely on the construction of the rapper as a Black, masculine, heterosexual, cisgender man who enacts a narrative of struggle and success. In Queer Voices in Hip Hop, Lauron Kehrer turns our attention to openly queer and trans rappers and positions them within a longer Black queer musical lineage. Combining musical, textual, and visual analysis with reception history, this book reclaims queer involvement in hip hop by tracing the genre's beginnings within Black and Latinx queer music-making practices and spaces, demonstrating that queer and trans rappers draw on Ballroom and other cultural expressions particular to queer and trans communities of color in their work in order to articulate their subject positions. By centering the performances of openly queer and trans artists of color, Queer Voices in Hip Hop reclaims their work as essential to the development and persistence of hip hop in the United States as it tells the story of the queer roots of hip hop. |
| Funding |
Sponsored by the Society for American Music and American Musicological Society, and supported in part by NEH and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation |
| Note |
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Rap (Music) -- History and criticism.
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Rap (Music) |
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Gay musicians -- United States.
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Gay musicians. |
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United States. |
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Lesbian musicians -- United States.
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Lesbian musicians. |
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Transgender musicians -- United States.
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Transgender musicians. |
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African American gay people.
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African American lesbians.
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African American lesbians. |
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African American bisexuals.
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African American bisexuals. |
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African American transgender people.
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African American transgender people. |
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Gender-nonconforming people -- United States.
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Gender-nonconforming people. |
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Queer musicology.
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Queer musicology. |
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African American gays. |
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MUSIC / General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Subject |
African American lesbians. |
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African American bisexual people. |
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African American transgender people. |
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Gender non-conforming people. |
| Added Author |
Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
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| Has Supplement: |
Supplement (work): Kehrer, Lauron J. Queer voices in hip hop 1 online resource (7 external resources on Fulcrum with DOI links) |
| ISBN |
9780472903016 open access |
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0472903012 open access |
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9780472075683 hardcover |
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0472075683 hardcover |
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9780472055685 paperback |
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0472055682 paperback |
| Standard No. |
10.3998/mpub.11306619 |
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