Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Craig Jennex and Susan Fast -- Part I. Displacing Whiteness. Introduction: Displacing Whiteness / Daphne A. Brooks ; Visions of Wondaland: on Janelle Mon{acute}ae's Afrofuturistic vision / Marquita R. Smith ; Listening to difference: recognition and refusal in queer music diasporas / Craig Jennex ; Who's your daddy?: Beyonc{acute}e, the Dixie Chicks, and the art of outlaw protest / Francesca T. Royster -- Part II. Rethinking difference. Introduction: Rethinking difference / Annie Janeiro Randall ; "Brave new ideas begin": disability, gender, and life writing in twenty-first-century pop / Laurie Stras ; "Round my hometown": listening to London in the racial politics of post-millennial British soul / Freya Jarman with Emily Baker ; Born to Run and Reckless: My Life as a Pretender: rewriting the political imaginary of rock music memoir / Pamela Fox -- Part III. Decolonizing sound. Introduction: Decolonizing sound / Ellie M. Hisama ; Sounding the Halluci Nation: decolonizing race, masculinity, and global solidarities with A Tribe Called Red / Alexa Woloshyn ; Addict(ive) sex: toward an intersectional approach to Truth Hurts' Addictive and Afro-South Asian hip hop and R&B / Elliott H. Powell ; Hip hop dialogues: sampling women's hand drum songs and the Canadian popular mainstream / Liz Przybylski -- Part IV. Refusing conventions. Introduction: Refusing conventions / Maureen Mahon ; Electro-pop as Trojan horse: hearing the call to arms in Anohni's HOPELESSNESS / Maria Murphy ; Genders, genres, generations: Jacqueline Warwick and Susan McClary in conversation / Susan McClary and Jacqueline Warwick ; Power in the Darkness and "Angry Atthis": anthems, genres and the queer voice / Jack Halberstam -- Part V. Voicing resilience. Introduction: Voicing resilience / Murray Forman ; Resisting the politics of aging: Madonna and the value of female labor in popular music / Tiffany Naiman ; Vera Lynn 100: retirement, aging, and legacy for a "National Treasure" / Christina Baade ; Sounding lockdown: singing in administrative segregation at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women / Benjamin J. Harbert and Consuela Gaines.