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Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music: About the Author

Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music

About the Author

About the Author

Elliott H. Powell is associate professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota.

This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.

The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance provided for the publication of this book by the AMS 75 PAYS Endowment of the American Musicological Society, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The publication of this book was supported by an Imagine Fund grant for the arts, design, and humanities, an annual award from the University of Minnesota's Provost Office.

Portions of chapter 2 were originally published as “Coalitional Auralities: Notes on a Soundtrack to Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens,” GLQ 25, no. 1 (2019): 188–93; copyright 2019 Duke University Press; all rights reserved; reprinted by permission. Portions of chapter 4 were originally published as “Addict(ive) Sex: Toward an Intersectional Approach to Truth Hurts’ ‘Addictive’ and Afro-South Asian Hip Hop and R&B,” in Popular Music and the Politics of Hope: Queer and Feminist Interventions, ed. Susan Fast and Craig Jennex (New York: Routledge, 2019), 173–86; reprinted by permission of Taylor and Francis Group.

Copyright 2020 by Elliott H. Powell

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