Francesca T. Royster

Black Country Music

Listening for Revolutions

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Produktbeschreibung

How Black musicians have changed the country music landscape and brought light to Black creativity and innovation.

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Produktdetails

• American Music Series
• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 148mm x 223mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781477326497
• ISBN-10: 1477326499
• Artikelnr.: 63663520

Autorenporträt

Francesca T. Royster is a professor of English at DePaul University, author of Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era and Becoming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image of an Icon, and coeditor of “Uncharted Country,” a special issue of the Journal of Popular Music Studies on race and country music.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction. Where My People At?
* Chapter 1. Uneasy Listening: Tuning into Tina Turner’s Queer
Frequencies in Tina Turns the Country On! and Other Albums
* Chapter 2. “Love You, My Brother”: Darius Rucker’s Bro-Intimacy and
Acts of Sonic Freedom
* Chapter 3. How to Be an Outlaw: Beyoncé’s Daddy’s Lessons
* Chapter 4. Valerie June, Ghost Catcher
* Chapter 5. Can the Black Banjo Speak? Notes on Songs of Our Native
Daughters
* Chapter 6. Thirteen Ways of Looking at Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road
* Conclusion. Black Country Afrofuturisms: Mickey Guyton, Rissi Palmer,
and DeLila Black
* Acknowledgments
* Notes
* Index