The Funeral Concert Where the Body Performed

"He was the life of the party, so that's why I sent him home that way."


Learn more about Dr. Fletcher, Associate Professor of American & African American History and Co-Coordinator of Women’s and Gender Studies at Albright College.

BOOK: co-editor of "Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed" which examines the internal and/or external drives among ethnic, religious, and racial groups to separate their dead https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/...

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**SELECTED SOURCES & ADDITIONAL READING**

"Goonew’s Mother Defends Standing His Corpse on Stage for Club Farewell Event"
https://www.xxlmag.com/goonew-mother-...

"Goonew Reportedly Shot and Killed"
https://www.xxlmag.com/goonew-shot-ki...

"Why propping rapper Goonew’s body onstage wasn’t ‘disrespectful’"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-...

"'Why are people worried about how I sent my son home?' Family frustrated by criticism of final show for murdered loved one"
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/lo...

"Remembering Goonew"
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/artic...

"Rite of the Sitting Dead: Funeral Poses Mimic Life"
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/us...

"When You Die, You’ll Probably Be Embalmed. Thank Abraham Lincoln For That"
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...