I Wonder U - How Prince Went Beyond Race and Back

I Wonder U examines the entirety of Prince’s diverse career as a singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, record label mogul, movie star, and director, revealing how he refused to be typecast by the music industry’s limiting definitions of masculinity and femininity, of straightness and queerness, or of black music and white music.

List of contents

Introduction

1. Incognegro
2. On the Black Hand Side
3. Enfant Terrible
4. Cherry Bomb
5. Chaos and Crossroads
6. Don’t Call it a Comeback…
7. Dearly Beloved: An Epitaph

Acknowledgements
Notes
Index

About the author

ADILIFU NAMA is a professor of African American Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He has written numerous books about the intersection between African American Studies and pop culture, including Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes and Race on the QT: Blackness and the Films of Quentin Tarantino.
 

Summary

I Wonder U examines the entirety of Prince’s diverse career as a singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, record label mogul, movie star, and director, revealing how he refused to be typecast by the music industry’s limiting definitions of masculinity and femininity, of straightness and queerness, or of black music and white music.

Product details

• Authors: Adilifu Nama
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781978805170
• ISBN: 978-1-978805-17-0
• No. of pages: 186
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Musiker, Sänger, Bands und Gruppen, Rock, Ethnic Studies, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, Music / Songbooks, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies