Good BootyNPR Best Books of 2017 In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPRs acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race. In Good Booty, Ann Powers explores how popular music became Americas primary erotic art form. Powers takes us from nineteenth century New

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