Jimi Hendrix and the cultural politics of popular music /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Aaron Lefkovitz.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Cham, Switzerland :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Pivot,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2018.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource
SERIES
Series Title
Palgrave pivot
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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. Hendrix, an itinerant "Gypsy" and "Voodoo child" whose racialized "freak" visual image continues to internationally circulate, exploited the exoticism of his race, gender, and sexuality and Gypsy and Voodoo transnational political cultures and religion. Aaron E. Lefkovitz argues that Hendrix can be located in a legacy of black-transnational popular musicians, from Chuck Berry to the hip hop duo Outkast, confirming while subverting established white supremacist and hetero-normative codes and conventions. Focusing on Hendrix's transnational biography and centrality to US and international visual cultural and popular music histories, this book links Hendrix to traditions of blackface minstrelsy, international freak show spectacles, black popular music's global circulation, and visual-cultural racial, gender, and sexual stereotypes, while noting Hendrix's place in 1960s countercultural, US-exceptionalist, cultural Cold War, and rock histories.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
Springer Nature
Stock Number
com.springer.onix.9783319770130
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Hendrix, Jimi-- Criticism and interpretation.
Hendrix, Jimi.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Rock music-- Social aspects-- United States-- 20th century.