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Author Taylor, Jodie, 1980- author.

Title Playing it queer : popular music, identity and queer world-making / Jodie Taylor
Published Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, [2012]
©2012
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) : illustrations
Contents pt. 1. The theoretical landscape -- pt. 2. Translocal styles, sensibilities and local representations
Summary Popular music has always been a dynamic mediator of gender and sexuality, and a productive site of rebellion, oddity and queerness. The transformative capacity of music-making, performance and consumption helps us to make and make sense of identity and allows us to glimpse otherworldliness, arousing the political imagination. With an activist voice that is impassioned yet adherent to scholarly rigour, Playing it Queer provides an original and compelling ethnographic account of the relationship between popular music, queer self-fashioning and [sub]cultural world-making
This book begins with a comprehensive survey and critical evaluation of relevant literatures on queer identity and political debates as well as popular music, identity and [sub]cultural style. Contextualised within a detailed history of queer sensibilities and creative practices, including camp, drag, gender fuck, queercore, feminist music and club cultures, the author's rich empirical studies of local performers and translocal scenes intimately capture the meaning and value of popular musics and [sub]cultural style in everyday queer lives
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-242) and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Popular music -- Social aspects
Gender identity in music.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Pop Vocal.
Gender identity in music
Popular music -- Social aspects
Unterhaltungsmusik
Geschlechterrolle
Queer-Theorie
Musik -- populärmusik -- queerteori -- identitet.
Genus.
Feminism.
Subkulturer.
Populärmusik -- sociala aspekter.
Könsidentitet i musiken.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783035104202
3035104204