Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index.
Contents:
Preface : RJP and the rhythm and blues imagination -- Introduction : (Re)Reading destructive desires and cultural longings in post-Civil Rights Era rhythm and blues culture, life, and politics -- Reading race, gender, and sex : Black intimate relations, black inequality, and the rhythm and blues imagination -- "Whip appeal" : Reading Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds -- "Freak like me" : Reading Adina Howard -- "Didn't we almost have it all?" : Reading Whitney Houston -- Epilogue : "It's just another sad love song" : Reading Toni Braxton -- Appendices. Select list of Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds's song ; Select awards and honors ; Robert J. Patterson interviews Adina Houston.
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