Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music

by Ann Powers

Book Overview

NPR Best Books of 2017

In 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.

In Good Booty, Ann Powers explores how popular music became America's primary erotic art form. Powers takes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062463691
• ISBN13: 9780062463692
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Dey Street Books
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"