Raising the Bottom
Bounce Music and Black Queer Performance in Post-Katrina New Orleans
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Product details:
- Publisher Duke University Press
- Date of Publication 7 April 2026
- ISBN 9781478033707
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages196 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 572 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 illustrations 700
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Long description:
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent mass displacement of black neighborhoods in New Orleans, black queer performers redefined notions of belonging throughout the city. These unlikely figures, such as artists Big Freedia and Vockah Redu, played a significant role in calling the displaced back home and serving as beacons of hope. In Raising the Bottom, Alix Chapman engages in performance ethnography, taking to the stage while writing about the lives of these bounce artists and their extended community. He theorizes an epistemology of the bottom—a way of knowing, praxis, and aesthetic—which contests hierarchies of value that place black and queer bodies at the lowest rungs of the social ladder. By engaging in this bottom episteme, bounce performers leverage pleasure and coalition to transform collectives not meant to survive crisis and disaster. Raising the Bottom shows how black queer artists address, remix, and redirect stereotypes to amplify community power, pleasure, and solidarity.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface: Bourbon Street Blues ix
Introduction. Project Music 1
1. Catch Dat Beat: Performing Pleasure and Coalition 25
2. Get It How You Live: Twerking for Survival 49
3. Back of Town: A Bottom Geography 71
4. Touching the Rim: Gentrification, Popular Culture, and the Collective Asshole 96
5. Raising the Bottom: Church Girls and Secular Music 122
Acknowledgments 143
Notes 147
References 163
Index 175
