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Good Booty
Ann Powers
About This Book
NPR Best Books of 2017
In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR's acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race.
In Good Booty, Ann Powers explores how popular music became America's primary erotic art form. Powers takes us from nineteenth-century New Orleans through dance-crazed Jazz Age New York to the teen scream years of mid-twentieth century rock-and-roll to the cutting-edge adventures of today's web-based pop stars. Drawing on her deep knowledge and insights on gender and sexuality, Powers recounts stories of forbidden lovers, wild shimmy-shakers, orgasmic gospel singers, countercultural perverts, soft-rock sensitivos, punk Puritans, and the cyborg known as Britney Spears to illuminate how eroticism—not merely sex, but love, bodily freedom, and liberating joy—became entwined within the rhythms and melodies of American song. This cohesion, she reveals, touches the heart of America's anxieties and hopes about race, feminism, marriage, youth, and freedom.
In a survey that spans more than a century of music, Powers both heralds little known artists such as Florence Mills, a contemporary of Josephine Baker, and gospel queen Dorothy Love Coates, and sheds new light on artists we think we know well, from the Beatles and Jim Morrison to Madonna and Beyoncé. In telling the history of how American popular music and sexuality intersect—a magnum opus over two decades in the making—Powers offers new insights into our nation psyche and our soul.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The Taboo Baby New Orleans, 1800–1900
- 2. That Da Da Strain: Shimmying, Shaking, Sexology New York, 1900–1929
- 3. Let it Breathe On Me: Spiritual Erotics Chicago, Birmingham, Memphis, 1929–1956
- 4. Teen Dreams and Grown-UP Urges the American Heartland, 1950–1960
- 5. The Sexual Revolution and its Discontents New YORK, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, 1961–1970
- 6. Hard and Soft Realities London, Los Angeles, New YOrk, 1971–1979
- 7. Oh No, it Hurts: Aids, Reagan, and the Backlash New YORK, San Francisco, Seattle, 1977–1997
- 8. Hungry Cyborgs: Britney, Beyoncé, and the Virtual Frontier Cyberspace, 1999–2016
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- List of Illustrations
- Index
- About the Author
- Also by Ann Powers
- Credits
- Copyright
- About the Publisher