Overview
- Provides novel descriptions of Hendrix’s popular music, linking him to broader contextual and historical questions of the countercultural 1960s and black-transnational political-cultures
- Centers Hendrix in a popular musical and visual-cultural Black Atlantic, and connects him to questions of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and nation
- Addresses ways in which Hendrix was a distinctively global symbol of threatening & non-threatening black masculinity, with connections to additional African-American performers
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About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music
Authors: Aaron Lefkovitz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77013-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77012-3Published: 10 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77013-0Published: 28 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 158
Topics: Popular Culture , Music, American Culture, Culture and Gender, Ethnicity Studies