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Record Nr.

UNINA9910597898003321

Autore

Kehrer Lauron Jockwig <1986->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2022

ISBN

9780472903016

0472903012

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource xi, 142 pages)

Collana

Tracking pop

Disciplina

782.421649086/6

Soggetti

Rap (Music) - History and criticism

Gay musicians - United States

Lesbian musicians - United States

Transgender musicians - United States

African American gays

African American lesbians

African American bisexuals

African American transgender people

Gender-nonconforming people - United States

Queer musicology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-142) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.