| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations |
| Series |
New perspectives on gender in music |
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New perspectives on gender in music.
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| Contents |
Introduction : queering post-World War II masculinity through music -- Visibly hidden : postwar disorientation, queer community, and queer ambivalence -- A freak deferred : Johnnie Ray navigates innovation and convention -- Spectacular vacillations : Little Richard charms and disarms America -- Fine and dandy : mapping Johnny Mathis's negotiations of race, sexuality, and affect -- Building an empire of illusion : Liberace and the art of queering -- Conclusion : disquieting and exciting : queering tools in popular music and queer becoming |
| Summary |
The all-embracing, 'whaddya got?' nature of rebellion in Fifties America included pop music's unlikely challenge to entrenched notions of masculinity. Within that upheaval, four prominent artists dared to behave in ways that let the public assume - but not see - their queerness. That these artists cultivated ambiguous sexual personas often reflected an understandable fear, but also a struggle to fulfill personal and professional expectations. Vincent L. Stephens confronts notions of the closet - both coming out and staying in - by analysing the careers of Liberace, Johnny Mathis, Johnnie Ray, and Little Richard. Appealing to audiences hungry for novelty and exoticism, the four pop icons used performance and queering techniques that ran the gamut |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 30, 2020) |
| Subject |
Little Richard, 1932-2020
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Ray, Johnnie, 1927-1990.
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Liberace, 1919-1987.
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Mathis, Johnny.
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| SUBJECT |
Liberace, 1919-1987 fast |
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Little Richard, 1932-2020 fast |
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Mathis, Johnny fast |
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Ray, Johnnie, 1927-1990 fast |
| Subject |
Homosexuality and popular music -- United States
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Gay musicians -- United States
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Gay singers -- United States
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Music and race -- United States
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MUSIC -- General.
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Gay musicians
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Gay singers
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Homosexuality and popular music
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Music and race
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019014569 |
| ISBN |
9780252051661 |
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0252051661 |
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0252042808 |
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9780252042805 |
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