Volume 21, Issue 3, September 2017

In this issue (20 articles)

1. 

   INTRODUCTION

   Studying Prince: An Introduction

   Judson L. Jeffries, Shannon M. Cochran Pages 293-295

2. 

   ARTICLES

   Black Muse 4 U: Liminality, Self-Determination, and Racial Uplift in the Music of Prince

   James Gordon Williams Pages 296-319

3. 

   ARTICLES

   Prince: Postmodern Icon

   Nancy J. Holland Pages 320-336

4. 

   ARTICLES

   Teaching Prince as Critical Pedagogy: an Autoethnography

   Zada Johnson Pages 337-352

5. 

   ARTICLES

   A Flâneur in the Erotic City: Prince and the Urban Imaginary

   Adrian A. Bautista Pages 353-372

6. 

   ARTICLES

   For Colored Girls Who Loved Prince Rogers Nelson: Issues of Colorism and Identity

   Donnetrice Allison Pages 373-384

7. 

   ARTICLES

   Erotic Cities: Instrumental Anthropomorphism in Prince’s Compositions

   Brian Jude de Lima Pages 385-407

8. 

   ARTICLES

   “We Are in the Feminine Aspect Now”: Women Artists, Prince, and Visions of Utopia

   H. Zahra Caldwell Pages 408-424

9. 

   ARTICLES

   Prince Rogers Nelson: from “Dirty Mind” to Devout Jehovah’s Witness

   Cassandra Chaney Pages 425-442

10. 

    ARTICLES

    Nothing Compares to You: Prince and the Theory of Optimal Distinctiveness

    Deirdre T. Guion Peoples Pages 443-460

11. 

    ARTICLES

    A Conceptual Falsetto: Re-imagining Black Childhood Via One Girl’s Exploration of Prince

    Kimberly C. Ransom Pages 461-499

12. 

    ESSAY

    Growing Up Prince, Sheila E., and Uncle Gary: Notes on Gender Performativity

    Shannon M. Cochran Pages 500-507

13. 

    REFLECTION

    Prince, Roger, and Me

    Judson L. Jeffries Pages 508-514

14. 

    REFLECTION

    The Day My Purple Sky Turned Gray

    Laurinda D. Brown Pages 515-520

15. 

    REFLECTION

    Prince Awakens the Queer Child

    Derrick Cohens Pages 521-523

16. 

    REFLECTION

    Dream If You Can: A Mother and Daughter’s Reflections on Prince, Self-Realization, and Black Womanhood

    Saidah K. Isoke Pages 524-527

17. 

    REFLECTION

    The Electric Life of Prince Rogers Nelson

    kYmberly Keeton Pages 528-532

18. 

    REFLECTION

    When Faith and Music Intersect: the Spiritual Evolution of a Musical Genius

    Tracey M. Lewis-Giggetts Pages 533-539

19. 

    BOOK REVIEW ESSAY

    Jim Walsh. Gold Experience: Following Prince in the ‘90s

    Roy Kay Pages 540-547

20. 

    BOOK REVIEW

    Ben Greenman: Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God, and Genius in the Music of Prince

    Zachary Hoskins Pages 548-550