# Prince's Minneapolis, Vol. 1

By **Rashad Shabazz**

- ISBN-13: 9781469690940
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 272
- Published: 17 Feb 2026

## About this book

When nineteen-year-old Prince took the stage to perform “I Wanna Be Your Lover” on American Bandstand, those who watched couldn’t reconcile how Prince’s funky disco-pop sounds had hailed from a place like Minneapolis. But the Minneapolis Sound, Prince’s signature pop-musical fusion of funk, R & B, rock, punk, and n

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