
Destructive Desires
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface: RJP and the Rhythm and Blues Imagination
- Introduction: (Re)Reading Destructive Desires and Cultural Longings in Post-Civil Rights Era Rhythm and Blues Culture, Life, and Politics
- 1. Reading Race, Gender, and Sex: Black Intimate Relations, Black Inequality, and the Rhythm and Blues Imagination
- 2. "Whip Appeal": Reading Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds
- 3. "Freak Like Me": Reading Adina Howard
- 4. "Didn't We Almost Have It All?": Reading Whitney Houston
- Epilogue: "It's Just Another Sad Love Song": Reading Toni Braxton
- Appendix A: Select List of Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds's Songs
- Appendix B: Select Awards and Honors
- Appendix C: Robert J. Patterson Interviews Adina Howard
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
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