Queering the Popular Pitch

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Pub. Date: 2006-05-05
Publisher(s): Routledge
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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.

Table of Contents

Editors ix
Preface xi
SHEILA WHITELEY
Introduction xiii
Part 1 Performing Lives, Hidden Histories
1 What's That Smell?
3(24)
Queer Temporalities and Subcultural Lives
JUDITH HALBERSTAM
2 Girl on Girl
27(14)
Fat Femmes, Bio-Queens, and Redefining Drag
RACHEL DEVITT
3 Queering the Witch
41(14)
Stevie Nicks and the Forging of Femininity at the Night of a Thousand Stevies
JASON LEE OAKES
4 Tickle Me Emo
55(12)
Lesbian Balladeering, Straight-Boy Emo, and the Politics of Affect
KAREN TONGSON
5 "Anders als die Anderen," or Queering the Song
67(16)
Construction and Representation of Homosexuality in German Cabaret Song Recordings before 1933
ANNO MUNGEN
Part 2 Queering Boundaries
6 Tears and Screams
83(18)
Performances of Pleasure and Pain in the Bolero
VANESSA KNIGHTS
7 Hey, Man, You're My Girlfriend!
101(14)
Poetic Genderfuck and Queer Hebrew in Eran Zur's Performance of Yona Wallach's Lyrics
GILAD PADVA
8 Albita Rodriguez
115(16)
Sexuality, Imaging, and Gender Construction in the Music of Exile
MARIO REY
9 Su Casa Es Mi Casa
131
Latin House, Sexuality, Place
STEPHEN AMIGO
Part 3 Too Close for Comfort
10 Too Much, Tatu Young
155(14)
Queering Politics in the World of Tatu
SARAH KERTON
11 "I Am Not in a Box of Any Description"
169(16)
Sinead O'Connor's Queer Outing
EMMA MAYHEW
12 Gender Crossings
185(14)
A Neglected History in African American Music
JEFFREY CALLEN
13 Queer(ing) Masculinities in Heterosexist
199(22)
Rap Music
FREYA JARMAN-IVENS
14 Closeness and Distance
221(14)
Songs about AIDS
PAUL ATTINELLO
Part 4 Glamorous Excess
15 Endless Caresses
235(14)
Queer Exuberance in Large-Scale Form in Rock
JENNIFER RYCENGA
16 Popular Music and the Dynamics of Desire
249(14)
SHEILA WHITELEY
17 Trans Glam
263(16)
Gender Magic in the Film Musical
LLOYD WHITESELL
18 On Male Queering in Mainstream Pop
279(16)
STAN HAWKINS
Contributors 295(6)
Index 301

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