Sounding like a no-no : : queer sounds and eccentric acts in the post-soul era / / Francesca T. Royster.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, c2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of 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 "Strangé" 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 Monáe's collective vision.