{"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 Beyoncé. 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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ann Powers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dey Street Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/12\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.30w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062463708\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePowers, Ann:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eANN POWERS\u003c\/strong\u003e has been a music critic for more than thirty years, working for NPR, the\u003cem\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and other publications. In the decade she has worked with NPR, she has written extensively on music and culture and appeared regularly on the \u003cem\u003eAll Songs Considered\u003c\/em\u003e podcast and on news shows including \u003cem\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMorning Edition\u003c\/em\u003e. Her books include a memoir, \u003cem\u003eWeird Like Us: My Bohemian America\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eGood Booty\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003cem\u003eLove and Sex\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBlack and White\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Body and Soul in American Music\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003ePiece by Piece\u003c\/em\u003e with Tori Amos. Powers lives in Nashville.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dey Street Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44697615630451,"sku":"9780062463708","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_2d0a70b1-a0b7-4729-a6a7-bfecef3106ef.jpg?v=1775243275","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/good-booty-love-and-sex-black-and-white-body-and-soul-in-american-music-9780062463708","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}