Glitter up the dark : how pop music broke the binary /

"Is our love of pop music innately queer? That's the question Sasha Geffen answers--with a "yes," of course--in this book. Beginning with the Beatles and moving to the present, Geffen identifies artists of all stripes who performed "outside the limitations of their assigned...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Geffen, Sasha (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Series:American music series (Austin, Tex.)
Subjects:
Gender identity in music.
Sex role in music.
Popular music > History and criticism.
Identité de genre dans la musique.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la musique.
Musique populaire > Histoire et critique.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Pop Vocal.
Popular music.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. An Alternate Ribbon of Time
  • Screaming the Beatles: The First Boy Band Breaks the Gender Mold
  • Oh! You Pretty Things: The Glitter Revolution
  • Whining Is Gender Neutral: Punk's Adolescent Escapism
  • Wreckers of Civilization: Post-punk, Goth, and Industrial
  • Soft Machines: Women, Cyborgs, and Electronic Music
  • Not a Woman, Not a Man: Prince's Sapphic Androgyny
  • The Fake Makes It Real: Synthpop and MTV
  • Infinite Utopia: Queer Time in Disco and House
  • Funky Cyborgs: Time, Technology, and Gender in Hip-Hop
  • Butch Throats: Women's Music and Riot Grrrl
  • God Is Gay: The Grunge Eruption
  • No Shape: The Formless Internet
  • Coda: Whole New World

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