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Scholarly Articles/Books
- Bautista, A. A. (2017). A Flâneur in the Erotic City: Prince and the Urban Imaginary. Journal of African American Studies, 21(3), 353-372.
- de Lima, B. J. (2017). Erotic Cities: Instrumental Anthropomorphism in Prince’s Compositions. Journal of African American Studies, 21(3), 385-407.
- Fuchs, C. (2008). “I wanna be your fantasy”: Sex, death, and the artist formerly known as prince, Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, 8:2, 137-151, DOI: 10.1080/07407709608571235
- Greenman, B. (2017). Dig if you will the picture : Funk, sex, God, and genius in the music of Prince (First ed.). New York: Henry Holt and Company.
- Holland, N. (1988). Purple Passion: Images of Female Desire in “When Doves Cry”. Cultural Critique, (10), 89-98. doi:10.2307/1354108
- Niblock, S. A. (2005). Prince: negotiating the meanings of femininity in the mid-1980s (Doctoral dissertation, Middlesex University).
- Potts, A. K. (2016). The intersectional influences of Prince: a human-animal tribute. Animal Studies Journal, 5(1), 152-186.
- Ramos, N. J. (2014), Toward an Epistemology of Prince. Journal of Popular Music Studies, 26: 431-444. doi:10.1111/jpms.12091
- Stuckey, J. K. (2016). Prince’s Legacy: ‘Set your mind free’. Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, 23(5), 20-23.
- Walser R. (1994). Prince as Queer Poststructuralist, Popular Music and Society, 18(2), 79-89, DOI: 10.1080/03007769408591556
- Whiteneir, K. (2016). The Purple Prince: How Prince Subverted Gender Though Costume, Performance, and Eroticism. Dress, 42(2), 75-88.
- Woodworth, G. (2013). Prince, Miles, and Maceo: horns, masculinity, and the anxiety of influence. Black Music Research Journal, 33(2), 117-150.
Other
- Isoke, Saidah. “Dream If You Can: A Mother and Daughter’s Reflections on Prince, Self-Realization, and Black Womanhood.” Journal of African American Studies, 21(3), 2017, pp. 524–527. https://doi-org.ezp1.lib.umn.edu/10.1007/s12111-017-9373-5
- Cochran, S. M. (2017). Growing Up Prince, Sheila E., and Uncle Gary: Notes on Gender Performativity. Journal of African American Studies, 21(3), 500-507.
- Wilkinson, Crystal (2017, February). Dig If You Will the Picture. Oxford American, 95.