Hip-hop's Big Freedia brings a bouncy beat to Howard Theatre

Before it was added to the dictionary, parodied in late-night TV show pranks, and co-opted by Miley Cyrus, twerking was part and parcel with bounce music. A bare-bones, hypersexual style of hip-hop, bounce has been the unofficial sound of New Orleans for more than two decades. First seeing mainstream success thanks to Lil Wayne and Juvenile, its recent renaissance has been due in large part to a generation of queer "sissy bounce" artists, chief among them Big Freedia. The self-described Queen Di...