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Description

1. xi, 151 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

1. "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 of hip hop's queer roots"--

Series statement

1. Tracking pop

Subject

1. Rap (Music) > History and criticism
2. Hip-hop > History and criticism
3. Gay musicians > United States
4. Lesbian musicians > United States
5. Transgender musicians > United States
6. African American gay people
7. African American lesbians
8. African American bisexual people
9. African American transgender people
10. Gender-nonconforming people > United States
11. Queer musicology
12. Gender identity in music
13. Queer theory
14. African American bisexuals
15. African American gays
16. Gay musicians
17. Gender-nonconforming people
18. Lesbian musicians
19. Rap (Music)
20. Transgender musicians
21. Hip-hop
22. African American LGBTQ+ people
23. African American gay men
24. Black bisexual people
25. Gender minorities
26. Gender non-conforming people
27. Theories
28. United States

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Introduction. "I don't have any secrets I need kept anymore": Out in hip-hop -- Hip-hop's queer roots: Disco, house, and early hip-hop -- Queer articulations in ballroom rap -- "The bro code"" Black queer women and female masculinity in rap -- "Nice for what": New Orleans bounce and disembodied queer voices in the mainstream -- Outro. "Call me by your name": Demarginalizing queer hip-hop.

Call number

1. Sc E 23-1356

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-141) and index.

Funding (note)

1. "Open Access publication of this book is supported by the H. Earle Johnson Book Publication Subvention from the Society for American Music and the AMS 75 PAYS Endowment of the American Musicological Society, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation."--Title page verso.

Information relating to copyright status (note)

1. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License

Author

1. Kehrer, Lauron Jockwig, 1986- author.

Title

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

Publisher

1. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2022.

Copyright date

1. ©2022

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Tracking pop

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-141) and index.

Funding

1. "Open Access publication of this book is supported by the H. Earle Johnson Book Publication Subvention from the Society for American Music and the AMS 75 PAYS Endowment of the American Musicological Society, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation."--Title page verso.

Note

1. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivatives

LCCN

1. 2022942046

ISBN

1. 0472075683 (hardcover)
2. 9780472075683 (hardcover)
3. 0472055682 (paperback)
4. 9780472055685 (paperback)

Research call number

1. Sc E 23-1356
2. JME 23-243