By Ann Powers. New York: Dey Street Books, 2017.
Finally, I found someone who sucks worse than Josh Harris.
This book is a history of the intersections of sexuality and race in music in America, from New Orleans in the early 1800s to the internet world of today.
Though I found this sweeping tome informative, it smacks of the social justice warrior agenda. Powers' bias is clear throughout this history, and when she can't find evidence to support something, she makes it up, as in a Gospel singer's transgenderism.
It would also seem Powers has a dirty mind. Though sexuality is of course a huge part of popular music, like Josh Harris's "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" or a lot of the other rhetoric coming from fundamentalist Christian proponents of purity culture, she doesn't seem to realize there's a lot more to being attracted to someone than what goes on in one's lower regions. For the author, most everything is down to sex.
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