Queering the popular pitch / edited by Sheila Whiteley and Jennifer Rycenga.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Whiteley, Sheila, 1941-2015.

Rycenga, Jennifer

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality and popular music.

Sex in music.

Gay musicians.

Gender identity in music.

Physical Description:

xix, 308 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

Queering the Popular Pitch is a new collection of eighteen essays by international scholars who explore the queer iconography implicit in a variety of art forms, including film musicals, videos, cabaret, Latin House, poetry and, in some cases, cultural personae. The authors delve into issues concerning race and ethnicity, forgotten histories, the body in music, and the use of popular music in power politics-situating music within the broader patterns of culture that it both mirrors and actively reproduces. The essays also forge alliances between academics, activists, scholars and listeners-with the aim of exploring the ways in which queering has challenged cultural, social and musical structures.

Queering the Popular Pitch promises to establish a new level of discourse in a growing field of musicological research.

Contents:

Performing lives, hidden histories. What's that smell? : queer temporalities and subcultural lives / Judith Halberstam ; Girl on girl : fat femmes, bio-queens, and redefining drag / Rachel Devitt ; Queering the witch : Stevie Nicks and the forging of femininity at the Night of a thousand Stevies / Jason Lee Oakes ; Tickle me emo : Lesbian balladeering, straight-boy emo and the politics of affect / Karen Tongson ; "Anders als die Anderen," or Queering the song : construction and representation of homosexuality in German cabaret song recordings before 1933 / Anno Mungen

Queering boundaries. Tears and screams : performances of pleasure and pain in the bolero / Vanessa Knights ; Hey, man, you're my girlfriend! : poetic genderfuck and Queer Hebrew in Eran Zur's performance of Yona Wallach's lyrics / Gilad Padva ; Albita Rodríguez : sexuality, imaging, and gender construction in the music of exile / Mario Rey ; Su casa es mi casa : Latin House, sexuality, place / Stephen Amico

Too close for comfort. Too much, tatu young : queering politics in the world of tatu / Sarah Kerton ; "I am not in a box of any description" : Sinéad O'Connor's queer outing / Emma Mayhew ; Gender crossings : a neglected history in African American music / Jeffrey Callen ; Queer(ing) masculinities in heterosexist rap music / Freya Jarman-Ivens ; Closeness and distance : songs about AIDS / Paul Attinello

Glamorous excess. Endless caresses : queer exuberance in large-scale form in rock / Jennifer Rycenga ; Popular music and the dynamics of desire / Sheila Whiteley ; Trans glam : gender magic in the film musical / Lloyd Whitesell ; On male queering in mainstream pop / Stan Hawkins.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415978041

041597805X

OCLC:

62290450

Publisher Number:

9780415978057

9780415978040