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Good Booty : : Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music / Ann Powers.

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Preface -- Introduction -- The taboo baby -- That da da strain: shimmying, shaking, sexology -- Let it breathe on me: spiritual erotics -- Teen dreams and grown-up urges -- The sexual revolution and its discontents -- Hard and soft realities -- Oh no, it hurts: AIDS, Reagan, and the backlash -- Hungry cyborgs: Britney, Beyoncé, and the virtual frontier -- Epilogue.
"In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR's acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race."--Provided by publisher.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Dey Street, an imprint of William Morrow, [2017]
Year Published: 2017
Description: xxvi, 418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780062463692
0062463691

SUBJECTS
Popular music -- History and criticism.
Music -- History and criticism.