Raising the Bottom: Bounce Music and Black Queer Performance in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Author/Contributor(s):	Chapman, Alix
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	04/07/2026
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Drawing on two years of fieldwork in post-Katrina New Orleans, Raising the Bottom is a performance ethnography of the bounce musical genre, tracing what Alix Chapman calls an epistemology of the bottom to understand how black queer performers amplify community power, pleasure, and solidarity.