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Cruising Utopia with Brittany Howard: Jaime's Queer Afrofuturism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2020

FRANCESCA T. ROYSTER
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Abstract

Inspired by Brittany Howard's solo album Jaime (2019), this contribution creates a conversation between music studies, queer studies, African American Literature, and memoir to think about lived ways of understanding, performing, and participating in music to create a future of inclusion. I argue that Black queer strategies of listening and musicking contributes to a new layer of music, the dream space, which helps us understand the impact of music on everyday life.

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Twentieth-Century Music , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , February 2021 , pp. 13 - 28
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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Discography

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