Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era

Synopsis

Introduction : Eccentric Performance And Embodied Music In The Post-soul Moment -- Becoming Post-soul : Eartha Kitt, The Stranger, And The Melancholy Pleasures Of Racial Reinvention -- Stevie Wonder's Quare Teachings And Cross-species Collaboration In Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants And Other Songs -- Here's A Chance To Dance Our Way Out Of Our Constrictions : P-funk's Black Masculinity And The Performance Of Imaginative Freedom -- Michael Jackson, Queer World Making, And The Trans Erotics Of Voice, Gender, And Age -- Feeling Like A Woman, Looking Like A Man, Sounding Like A No-no : Grace Jones And The Performance Of Strang In The Post-soul Moment -- Funking Toward The Future In Meshell Ndegeocello's The World Has Made Me The Man Of My Dreams -- Epilogue : Janelle Mon E's Collective Vision. Francesca T. Royster. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.