Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music

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&q...

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Main Author: Lefkovitz, Aaron (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Popular Culture.
Music.
United States-Study and teaching.
Culture.
Gender.
Ethnicity.
ISBN:9783319770130
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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