Queering the popular pitch
By: edited by Sheila Whiteley, Jennifer Rycenga.
Contributors: Whiteley, Sheila, 1941-; Rycenga, Jennifer.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Homosexuality and popular music; Sex in music; Gay musicians; Gender identity in music
Description: "Queering the Popular Pitch is a new collection of 19 essays that situate queering within the discourse of sex and sexuality in relation to popular music. This investigation addresses the changing debates within gay, lesbian and queer discourse in relation to the dissemination of musical texts--performance, cultural production and sexual meaning--situating music within the broader patterns of culture that it both mirrors and actively reproduces."--Publisher's website
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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 in Seattle's Queer Girl cabarets / 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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.