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Start Date
7-3-2013 5:30 PM
End Date
7-3-2013 6:30 PM
Description
This talk traces a rebellious spirit in post–civil rights black music by focusing on a range of offbeat, eccentric, queer, or slippery performances by Meshell Ndegeocello. It demonstrates how sound and performance became a way to reclaim imaginative and corporeal freedom from the social death of slavery and its legacy of racism, to engender new sexualities and desires, to escape the sometimes constrictive codes of respectability and uplift from within the black community, and to make space for new futures for their listeners.
Meshell Ndegeocello: Funking Toward the Future
This talk traces a rebellious spirit in post–civil rights black music by focusing on a range of offbeat, eccentric, queer, or slippery performances by Meshell Ndegeocello. It demonstrates how sound and performance became a way to reclaim imaginative and corporeal freedom from the social death of slavery and its legacy of racism, to engender new sexualities and desires, to escape the sometimes constrictive codes of respectability and uplift from within the black community, and to make space for new futures for their listeners.
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A streaming version is available here.