{"product_id":"popular-music-and-the-politics-of-hope-9781138055896","title":"Popular Music and the Politics of Hope","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn today's culture, popular music is a vital site where ideas about gender and sexuality are imagined and disseminated. \u003ci\u003ePopular Music and the Politics of Hope: Queer and Feminist Interventions\u003c\/i\u003e explores what that means with a wide-ranging collection of chapters that consider the many ways in which contemporary pop music performances of gender and sexuality are politically engaged and even radical. With analyses rooted in feminist and queer thought, contributors explore music from different genres and locations, including Beyoncé's \u003ci\u003eLemonade\u003c\/i\u003e, A Tribe Called Red's \u003ci\u003eWe Are the Halluci Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, and celebrations of Vera Lynn's 100th Birthday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt a bleak moment in global politics, this collection focuses on the concept of critical hope: the chapters consider making and consuming popular music as activities that encourage individuals to imagine and work toward a better, more just world. Addressing race, class, aging, disability, and colonialism along with gender and \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \/ Indroduction \u003cem\u003e(Craig Jennex and Susan Fast) \/\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Part I: Displacing Whiteness\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e \/ \u003c\/i\u003eIntroduction (\u003ci\u003eDaphne A. Brooks) \/ \u003c\/i\u003e1. Visions of Wondaland: On Janelle Monaé’s Afrofuturistic Vision (\u003ci\u003eMarquita R. Smith) \/ \u003c\/i\u003e2. Listening to Difference: Recognition and Refusal in Queer Music Diasporas (\u003ci\u003eCraig Jennex) \/ \u003c\/i\u003e3. Who’s Your Daddy?: Beyoncé, the Dixie Chicks, and the Art of Outlaw Protest (\u003ci\u003eFrancesca T. Royster) \/ \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Rethinking Difference \/ \u003c\/b\u003eIntroduction (\u003ci\u003eAnnie Janeiro Randall) \/ \u003c\/i\u003e4. \"Brave New Ideas Begin:\" Disability, Gender, and Life-Writing in Twenty-First-Century Pop (\u003ci\u003eLaurie Stras) \/ \u003c\/i\u003e5. \"Round my Hometown:\" Listening to London in the Racial Politics of Post-Millennial British Soul (\u003ci\u003eFreya Jarman with Emily Baker) \/ \u003c\/i\u003e6. \u003ci\u003eBorn to Run\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eReckless: My Life as a Pretender\u003c\/i\u003e: Rewriting the Political Imaginary of Rock Music Memoir (\u003ci\u003ePamela Fox) \/ \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Decolonizing Sound \/ \u003c\/b\u003eIntroduction (\u003ci\u003eEllie M. Hisama) \/ \u003c\/i\u003e7. Sounding the Halluci Nation: Decolonizing Race, Masculinity, and Global Solidarities with A Tribe Called Red (\u003ci\u003eAlexa Woloshyn) \/ \u003c\/i\u003e8. Addict(ive) Sex: Toward an Intersectional Approach to Truth Hurts’ \"Addictive\" and Afro-South Asian Hip Hop and R\u0026amp;B (\u003ci\u003eElliott H. Powell) \/ \u003c\/i\u003e9. Hip Hop Dialogues: Sampling Women’s Hand Drum Songs and the Canadian Popular Mainstream (\u003ci\u003eLiz Przybylski) \/ \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Refusing Conventions \/ \u003c\/b\u003eIntroduction (\u003ci\u003eMaureen Mahon) \/ \u003c\/i\u003e10. Electro-Pop as Trojan Horse: Hearing the Call to Arms in Anohni’s \u003ci\u003eHOPELESSNESS (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaria Murphy) \/ \u003c\/i\u003e11. Genders, Genres, Generations: Jacqueline Warwick and Susan McClary in Conversation (\u003ci\u003eSusan McClary and Jacqueline Warwick) \/ \u003c\/i\u003e12. \u003ci\u003ePower in the Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e and \"Angry Atthis:\" Anthems, Genres and the Queer Voice (\u003ci\u003eJack Halberstam) \/ \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Voicing Resilience \/ \u003c\/b\u003eIntroduction (\u003ci\u003eMurray Forman) \/ \u003c\/i\u003e13. Resisting the Politics of Aging: Madonna and the Value of Female Labor in Popular Music (\u003ci\u003eTiffany Naiman) \/ \u003c\/i\u003e14.\u003ci\u003e Vera Lynn 100\u003c\/i\u003e: Retirement, Aging, and Legacy for a \"National Treasure\" (\u003ci\u003eChristina Baade) \/ \u003c\/i\u003e15. Sounding Lockdown: Singing in Administrative Segregation at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women (\u003cem\u003eBenjamin J. Harbert and Consuela Gaines) \u003c\/em\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019453038935,"sku":"9781138055896","price":43.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138055896.jpg?v=1750780315","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/popular-music-and-the-politics-of-hope-9781138055896","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}