Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Kehrer, Lauron Jockwig, 1986-

Publication

• Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2022.
• ©2022

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Description

xi, 151 pages; 23 cm.

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 of hip hop's queer roots"--

Series Statement

Tracking pop

Uniform Title

Tracking pop.

Subject

• Rap (Music) > History and criticism
• Hip-hop > 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
• Gender identity in music
• Queer theory
• Gay musicians
• Gender-nonconforming people
• Lesbian musicians
• Rap (Music)
• Transgender musicians
• Hip-hop
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-141) and index.

Funding (note)

• "Open Access publication of this book is supported by the H. Earle Johnson Book Publication Subvention from the Society for American Music and the AMS 75 PAYS Endowment of the American Musicological Society, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation."--Title page verso.

Information Relating to Copyright Status (note)

• This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License

Contents

Introduction. "I don't have any secrets I need kept anymore": Out in hip-hop -- Hip-hop's queer roots: Disco, house, and early hip-hop -- Queer articulations in ballroom rap -- "The bro code"" Black queer women and female masculinity in rap -- "Nice for what": New Orleans bounce and disembodied queer voices in the mainstream -- Outro. "Call me by your name": Demarginalizing queer hip-hop.

ISBN

• 0472075683
• 9780472075683
• 0472055682
• 9780472055685

LCCN

2022942046

OCLC

• on1289365405
• 1289365405
• SCSB-14559065

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries