Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music

by Aaron Lefkovitz

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" whose racialized "freak" visual image continues to internationally circulate, exploited the exoticism of his race, gender, and sexuality and Gypsy and Voodoo transnational political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319770128
• ISBN13: 9783319770123
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"