Introduction "Dearly Beloved," "Give Me Your Hands": Toward a (Rock and Roll) Commons / Daphne A. Brooks 1 "Adore": A Map to the Chapters, Meditations, Conversations, and a Spirited Round of Karaoke / Daphne A. Brooks 35 Part I. "Punch a Higher Floor": David Bowie, Prince, the Utopian, and the Spiritual 1. This Is What It''s Like When Starships Cry: A Cosmic Soliloquy on the Warp-Driven Vessels Christened Bowe and Prince / Greg Tate 53 2. Am I Nowhere Now? Hoping for Utopia in David Bowie''s Lazarus / Tiffany Naiman 61 Critical Karaoke Interlude I Farah Jasmine Griffin: Prince, "Nothing Compares 2 U" 74 Matthew Frye Jacobson: David Bowie, "Space Oddity" 77 3. "This Thing Called Life" (After Prince and Bowie): On Blackstars and Purple Rain / Kara Keeling 80 4. Not Quite Dying: Late Bowie / Eric Lott 92 5.
"Adore," Alternative / Ashon Crawley 101 Critical Karaoke Interlude II Gayle Wald: David Bowie, "Starman" 113 Richard Yarborough: Prince, "Housequake" (All-the-Way-Live Version) 116 Part II. "Station to Station": Traversing Cities and Borders with Bowie and Prince 6. Heroes Across the Border / Josh Kun 123 7. Riding in Cars with Prince / Van My Truong 129 Critical Karaoke Interlude III Gustavus Stadler: Prince, "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," or, Could / Be the Most Beautiful Girl in the World? 137 Daphne Carr: David Bowie, "I''m Afraid of Americans" (Nine Inch Nails V1 Mix) 140 Nicole R. Fleetwood: Prince, "Darling Nikki" 144 8. Queer Nightlife Autopoiesis: A Self-Guided Downtown Bowie Walking Tour / Shane Vogel 147 9. "There Will Be No Death": Prince''s Afterlife in Minneapolis / Emma Balázs and Kristen Zshomler 160 10. From the Depot to Uncle Sam''s: Minneapolis, Clubs, Album-Oriented Rock, and Prince in the Seventies / Michaelangelo Matos 175 Critical Karaoke Interlude IV Kathryn Lofton: David Bowie, "Modern Love" 186 Sonnet Retman: Queen and David Bowie, "Under Pressure" 189 Part III.
The Black Album: Bowie, Prince, and the Art of Sonic Experimentalism 11. David Bowie and the Texture of Guitar Experimentlism / Michael E. Veal 193 12. Mapping Prince''s "Erotic City" / Jason King 203 Critical Karaoke Interlude V Gayle Wald: Prince, "Pop Life" 218 Matthew Frye Jacobson: Prince, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" 221 13. His Magical Instruments: An Interview with Donny McCaslin / Maureen Mahon 224 14. New Waves, Shifting Terrains: Prince''s and David Bowie''s Transatlantic Crossovers / Alexander G. Weheliye 231 15. Young Americans: A Heat Rocks Podcast Conversations / Lynell George, Oliver Wang, and Morgan Rhodes 244 Critical Karaoke Interlude VI Christine Bacareza Balance: Prince, "Soft and Wet" 252 Andreana Clay: David Bowie, "Golden Years" 256 Part IV.
"Oh! You Pretty Things": Spectacular Bowie, Spectacular Prince-Visual and Performance Politics 16. David Bowie Is . A Curatorial Adventure / Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh 261 17. Like David Bowie / Jonathan Flatley 273 Critical Karaoke Interlide VII Daphne Carr: Prince and the New Power Generation, "7" 289 Emly Lordi: Prince, "How Come U Don''t Call Me Anymore" 292 18. "He Lives . the Clothes": A Conversation with Prince Costume Designer Marie France / Jacqueline Stewart 295 19. "I Was Dreaming When I Wrote This": Prince and Black Social Dreaming / Tavia Nyong''o 316 20. "Like a Poem": An Interview with D.
A. Pennebaker on Filming David Bowie / Matthew Frye Jackson 334 Critical Karaoke Interlude VII Karen Tongson: David Bowie, "China Girl" 345 Andreana Clay: Prince, "If I Was Your Girlfriend" 348 Part V. "Rebirth of the Flesh": Adventures in Intersectionality with Bowie and Prince 21. Trans* Bowie . Trans* Prince / Jack Halberstam 353 22. Prince as Revolutionary Mother: Creativity, Kinship, Collaboration, and Care, from Meshell Ndegeocello to Janelle Monáe / Francesca T. Royster 369 Critical Karaoke Interlude IX Gustavus Stadler: David Bowie, "Girl Loves Me" 385 Kathryn Lofton: Prince, "When You Were Mine" 388 23. "I Am Something That You''ll Never Understand": Facing the Strange with Bowie and Prince / Ann Powers 391 24.
"You''ve Got to Go In": An Interview with Sheila E. / Alexandra T. Vazquez 405 25. Blackstar, Bright Star, Not a Gangstar: Black Feminist Imaginaries Through Bowie and Prince / Daphne A. Brooks 420 Part VI. Outré Outro: "Where Are We Now?" Critical Karaoke Interlude X Michelle Habell-Pallán: David Bowie, "Let''s Dance" 459 Oliver Wang: Prince, "Kiss" 464 26. Fun Fun Fun: Having a Good Time with Prince and Duke / Greil Marcus 467 Acknowledgments 477 Sound and Vision Playlists L''Rain 479 Kimbra 481 Meshell Ndegeocello 483 Contributors 487 Index 497.