Marvin Gaye's I Want You

Derrais Carter (University of Arizona, USA)

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Bloomsbury Academic USA
09 March 2023

Music reviews & criticism; Easy listening, MOR music; Soul & R 'n' B; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

Series: 33 1/3

Marvin Gaye sang like he lived in bed. He could croon, deliver a political commentary, and sing to you like you were the only other soul on this earth. And in 1976 he gave us a taste of his erotic imagination with I Want You. An album made in honor of his ongoing love affair with Janis (Jan) Hunter, Gaye delivered excess and restraint to sound his desire. I Want You is an album that stands apart from Gaye's earlier collaborations with Diana Ross, Tammi Terrell, Mary Wells, and Kim Weston. Though not technically a duet, Gaye forges another kind of collaboration with Jan, the result of which is an album that provides an intimate portrait of an artist in love and lust.

Using interviews, visual art, poetry, criticism, and gossip, this book explores ecstasy, funk, sensation, and a host of other delicious and fleshy concerns that animate I Want You. It does not attempt a strict historicization of the album as that would do it a disservice. Instead, this book seeks fidelity to the album by centering Gaye's fantasies, his engagement with Ernie Barnes' painting Sugar Shack, and sonic expression of desire for Jan.

By: Derrais Carter (University of Arizona USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 165mm, Width: 121mm,
ISBN: 9781501379062
ISBN 10: 1501379062
Series: 33 1/3
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 09 March 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Postponed Indefinitley

1. Erotic Collaboration 2. Freaky Domesticity 3. Sugar 4. Soon 5. Honoring Desire 6. Towards an Aesthetic of Want

Derrais Carter is an Assistant Professor of Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, USA. He is the co-editor of The Iconic Obama (2012) and the author of Obscene Material: Erasing Black Girlhood in the Moens Scandal (forthcoming). He is a Fulbright Scholar, black cultural studies scholar, creative writer, and cognac sipper who centers black people in his art.

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Marvin Gaye's I Want You

Derrais Carter (University of Arizona, USA)

$33.95 $30.29

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