Queering the Popular Pitch
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.\ The collection is divided into four parts:\...
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Queering the Popular Pitch is a new collection of 19 essays by leading scholars on popular music. Following Routledge's landmark 1994 collection, Queering the Pitch, these scholars aim to 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, sexual meaning--situating music within the broader patterns of culture that it both mirrors and actively reproduces.The collection is divided into four parts. The first part, "Queering Borders," moves queer theory into some neglected histories of African American and Latino Musics, including jazz, rap, and bolero. Part Two, "Queer Spaces," looks at areas of popular music where queerness has played a role, from cabaret to songs about the AIDS crisis. Part Three, "Hidden Histories," offers three case studies of gender, generation, race, community, and sexuality. Finally, Part Four, "Queer Thoughts, Mixed Media," explores how music/queering is mediated by visual culture and videos.Queering the Popular Pitch will appeal to students of popular music and Gay/Lesbian studies. Like its predecessor and companion, Queering the Pitch, it promises to establish a new level of discourse in a growing field of musicological research.
1What's that smell? : queer temporalities and subcultural lives32Girl on girl : fat femmes, bio-queens, and redefining drag273Queering the witch : Stevie Nicks and forging of femininity at the night of a thousand Stevies4Tickle me emo : lesbian balladeering, straight-boy emo, and the politics of affect555"Anders als die Anderen," or queering the song : construction and representation of homosexuality in German cabaret song recordings before 1933676Tears and screams : performances of pleasure and pain in the bolero837Hey, man, you're my girlfriend : poetic genderfuck and queer Hebrew in Eran Zur's performance of Yona Wallach's lyrics1018Albita Rodriguez : sexuality, imaging, and gender construction in the music of exile1159Su Casa Es Mi Casa : Latin house, sexuality, place13110Too much, Tatu young : queering politics in the world of Tatu15511"I am not in a box of any description" : Sinead O'Connor's queer outing16912Gender crossings : a neglected history in African American music18513Queer(ing) masculinities in heterosexist rap music19914Closeness and distance : songs about AIDS22115Endless caresses : queer exuberance in large-scale form in rock23516Popular music and the dynamics of desire24917Trans glam : gender magic in the film musical26318On male queering in mainstream pop279
