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Author Kehrer, Lauron J., author

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

Publication Info. Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2022.
©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 142 pages)
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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
Description based on information from the publisher.
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.
Subject Rap (Music) -- History and criticism.
Gay musicians -- United States.
Lesbian musicians -- United States.
Transgender musicians -- United States.
African American gay people.
African American lesbians.
African American bisexual people.
African American transgender people.
Gender-nonconforming people -- United States.
Queer musicology.
Musiciens homosexuels -- États-Unis.
Musiciennes lesbiennes -- États-Unis.
Musiciens transgenres -- États-Unis.
Homosexuels noirs américains.
Lesbiennes noires américaines.
Transgenres noirs américains.
Musicologie queer.
MUSIC / General
African American bisexuals
African American gays
African American lesbians
African American transgender people
Gay musicians
Gender-nonconforming people
Lesbian musicians
Queer musicology
Rap (Music)
Transgender musicians
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
LGBTQ+ musicians.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
Has Supplement: Supplement (work): Kehrer, Lauron J. Queer voices in hip hop 1 online resource (7 external resources on Fulcrum with DOI links)
ISBN 0472903012 open access
9780472903016 (electronic bk.)
9780472075683 hardcover
0472075683 hardcover
9780472055685 paperback
0472055682 paperback
Standard No. 10.3998/mpub.11306619 doi
AU@ 000072817389
AU@ 000075798767

 
    
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