Queer voices in hip hop : : cultures, communities, and contemporary performance / / Lauron J. Kehrer.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Ann Arbor, Michigan : : University of Michigan Press,, 2022.
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Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Tracking pop.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 online resource xi, 142 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. "I Don't Have Any Secrets I Need Kept Anymore": Out in Hip Hop
  • 1. Hip Hop's Queer Roots: Disco, House, and Early Hip Hop
  • 2. Queer Articulations in Ballroom Rap
  • 3. "The Bro Code": Black Queer Women and Female Masculinity in Rap
  • 4. "Nice For What": New Orleans Bounce and Disembodied Queer Voices in the Mainstream
  • Outro. "Call Me By Your Name": Demarginalizing Queer Hip Hop
  • Bibliography
  • Index.