{"product_id":"good-booty-love-and-sex-black-and-white-body-and-soul-in-american-music-9780062463708","title":"Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNPR Best Books of 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eGood Booty\u003c\/em\u003e, Ann Powers explores how popular music became America's primary erotic art form. Powers takes us from nineteenth-century New Orleans through dance-crazed Jazz Age New York to the teen scream years of mid-twentieth century rock-and-roll to the cutting-edge adventures of today's web-based pop stars. Drawing on her deep knowledge and insights on gender and sexuality, Powers recounts stories of forbidden lovers, wild shimmy-shakers, orgasmic gospel singers, countercultural perverts, soft-rock sensitivos, punk Puritans, and the cyborg known as Britney Spears to illuminate how eroticism--not merely sex, but love, bodily freedom, and liberating joy--became entwined within the rhythms and melodies of American song. This cohesion, she reveals, touches the heart of America's anxieties and hopes about race, feminism, marriage, youth, and freedom. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a survey that spans more than a century of music, Powers both heralds little known artists such as Florence Mills, a contemporary of Josephine Baker, and gospel queen Dorothy Love Coates, and sheds new light on artists we think we know well, from the Beatles and Jim Morrison to Madonna and Beyonc . In telling the history of how American popular music and sexuality intersect--a magnum opus over two decades in the making--Powers offers new insights into our nation psyche and our soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePowers, Ann:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eAnn Powers is NPR Music's critic and correspondent and one of the nation's leading music writers. She began her career at \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Weekly, \u003c\/em\u003e and has held positions at the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times, \u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times, \u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cem\u003eVillage Voice, Blender, \u003c\/em\u003e and the Experience Music Project. Her books include \u003cem\u003eWeird Like Us: My Bohemian America;\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eTori Amos: Piece by Piece, \u003c\/em\u003ewhich she cowrote with Amos; and \u003cem\u003eRock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Rap, and Pop, \u003c\/em\u003e which she coedited with Evelyn McDonnell. She was also the editor of \u003cem\u003eBest Music Writing 2010.\u003c\/em\u003e She lives in Nashville.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dey Street Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50917431116050,"sku":"9780062463708","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_340acb82-e962-41e2-b13f-6cf0b3b43887.jpg?v=1738866998","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/good-booty-love-and-sex-black-and-white-body-and-soul-in-american-music-9780062463708","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}