Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music

ISBN-13: 9783319770123 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 158 str.

Aaron Lefkovitz

Opis

This book, on Jimi Hendrix's life, times, visual-cultural prominence, and popular music, with a particular emphasis on Hendrix's relationships to the cultural politics of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and nation.

Spis treści

1. Jimi Hendrix—Gypsy Eyes, Voodoo Child, and Countercultural Symbol

2. “I Don’t Want to Be a Clown Anymore”: Jimi Hendrix as Racialized Freak and Black-Transnational Icon

3. Jimi Hendrix and Black-Transnational Popular Music’s Global Gender and Sexualized Histories

4. Jimi Hendrix, the 1960s Counterculture, and Confirmations and Critiques of US Cultural Mythologies

5. Conclusion

O autorze

Aaron E. Lefkovitz teaches US, Latin-American, and African-American Histories and Humanities at the City Colleges of Chicago, DePaul University, and the University of Wisconsin, Parkside. His published works focus on the transnational cultural politics of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and nation, with in-depth studies of such figures as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Queen Latifah, Josephine Baker, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Bob Dylan.