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Summary:

Abstract: 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.

Author/Creator:

Kehrer, Lauron J. , author

Contributors:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan) , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Queer voices in hip hop: cultures, communities, and contemporary performance [by Kehrer, L.J.]

Other Related Resources:

Supplement: Queer voices in hip hop [by Kehrer, L.J.] (1 online resource (7 external resources on Fulcrum with DOI links))

Related Series:

Tracking pop

Subjects:

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

Gay musicians

Gender-nonconforming people

Lesbian musicians

Rap (Music)

Transgender musicians

United States

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-142) and index.
Sponsored by the Society for American Music and American Musicological Society, and supported in part by NEH and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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
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Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 142 pages).

Audio Characteristics:

digital

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

ML3531 .K447 2022eb

ISBNs:

9780472903016 (open access)
0472903012 (open access)
9780472075683 (hardcover) [Invalid]
0472075683 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9780472055685 (paperback) [Invalid]
0472055682 (paperback) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.3998/mpub.11306619

OCLC Numbers:

1342450947