Posts tagged Janelle Monáe
You Don’t Own Me: A Selection of Queer Music Before Stonewall
You Don’t Own Me: A Selection of Queer Music Before Stonewall

Though perhaps not as loud as what we know today, queerness has always been alive in music, hopeful and radiant and revolutionary and gentle.

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Music, Politics, Selections, HistoryLexi CovalsenTroye Sivan, Hayley Kiyoko, Dorian Electra, Conan Gray, Halsey, King Princess, Frank Ocean, Ma Rainey, Radclyffe Hall, Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde, the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Tiny Davis, the Hell Divers, Little Richard, Bumps Blackwell, Dorothy LaBostrie, Lesley Gore, the Beatles, Dusty Springfield, Joan Jett, Grace, Janelle Monáe
Singing While Rome Burns (A Selection of Music for the Apocalypse)
Singing While Rome Burns (A Selection of Music for the Apocalypse)

I’ve found a catharsis in musicians’ emotional responses to the strife in the world right now, and in their visions of what might spring from the ashes.

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Selections, MusicAmrita ChakrabortyHozier, Mavis Staples, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, James Brown, Janelle Monáe, Cage the Elephant, Sufjan Stevens, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bastille, Florence + the Machine, the 1975, Donald Trump, St. Vincent, Leonard Cohen, Richard Siken