Unmastered: The queer black aesthetics of unfinished recordings

Elliott H. Powell

doi:10.1080/00064246.2019.1548057

Unmastered: The queer black aesthetics of unfinished recordings

Elliott H. Powell

American Studies

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The article explores how unfinished music recordings like demos can serve as critical sites of queerness in African American popular music. It describes the deviation of popular musician Prince's album "Dirty Mind" from a standard studio album sound quality that reflects the musician's deviant sexualities. It also traces the album's Black queer imaginings through a brief reading of two recordings, including Lil' Kim's "Queen Bitch."

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	28-39
Number of pages	12
Journal	Black Scholar
Volume	49
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2019.1548057
State	Published - Jan 2 2019

Keywords

PRINCE, 1958-2016
DIRTY Mind (Music)
LIL' Kim, 1975-
SOUND recordings
queer
Notorious B.I.G.

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