Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music

• Main Author: Lefkovitz, Aaron (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Popular Culture.; Music.; United States-Study and teaching.; Culture.; Gender.; Ethnicity.; Popular Culture .; American Culture.; Culture and Gender.; Ethnicity Studies.

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...

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.