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

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

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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.