Destructive desires : rhythm and blues culture and the politics of racial equality /

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Despite rhythm and blues culture's undeniable role in molding, reflecting, and reshaping black cultural production, consciousness, and politics, it has yet to receive the serious scholarly examination it deserves. Destructive Desires corrects this omission by analyzing how post-Civil Rights era...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Patterson, Robert J., 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Temas:
Rhythm and blues music > Social aspects > United States > History.
Rhythm and blues music > Political aspects > United States > History.
Rhythm and blues music > History and criticism.
African Americans > Attitudes.
Noirs américains > Attitudes.
MUSIC > General.
Rhythm and blues music
African Americans > Attitudes
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface: RJP and the Rhythm and Blues Imagination
  • 1. Reading Race, Gender, and Sex: Black Intimate Relations, Black Inequality, and the Rhythm and Blues Imagination
  • 2. "Whip Appeal": Reading Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds
  • 3. "Freak Like Me": Reading Adina Howard
  • 4. "Didn't We Almost Have It All?": Reading Whitney Houston
  • Epilogue: "It's Just Another Sad Love Song": Reading Toni Braxton
  • Appendix A: Select List of Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds's Songs
  • Appendix B: Select Awards and Honors
  • Appendix C: Robert J. Patterson Interviews Adina Howard
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the author

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