Black Intimacy in R&B and Hip-Hop with Robert Patterson, Antonia Randolph, and Elliott Powell

"The session of PMBiP involves a conversation between Antonia Randolph and Robert J. Patterson about the representations of Black intimate life in R&B and hip-hop music during the Post-Civil Rights Era, with Elliott H. Powell serving as interlocutor. Patterson talks about his recent book Destructive Desires: Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of Racial Equality (Rutgers University Press, 2019) then Randolph reads from her book-in-progress, That’s My Heart: Queering Intimacy in Hip-Hop Culture. Powell questions both authors about overlaps and differences in their respective projects, with a lively audience discussion afterwards."