Queer voices in hip hop : cultures, communities, and contemporary performance

Queer voices in hip hop : cultures, communities, and contemporary performance /

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kehrer, Lauron J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2022.
Series:Tracking pop.
Subjects:
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.
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
LGBTQ+ musicians.
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
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.

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