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: queering borders; queer spaces; hidden histories; queer thoughts, mixed media.

"Queering the Popular Pitch" will appeal to students of popular music, Gay and Lesbian studies. With case studies and essays by leading popular music scholars it provides insightful discourse in a growing field of musicological research.

CONTENIDO

Editors
Preface (Sheila Whiteley)
Introduction

Part 1. Performing Lives, Hidden Histories
1. What's That Smell? Queer Temporalities and Subcultural Lives (Judith Halberstam)
2. Girl on Girl. Fat Femmes, Bio-Queens, and Redefining Drag (Rachel Devitt)
3. Queering the Witch. Stevie Nicks and the Forging of Feminity at the Night of a Thousand Stevies (Jason Lee Oakes)
4. Tickle Me Emo. Lesbian Balladeering, Straight-Boy Emo, and the Politics of Affect (Karen Tongson)
5. "Anders als die Anderen" or Queering the Song. Constrcution and Representation of Homosexuality in German Cabaret Song Recordings Before 1933 (Anno Mungen)

Part 2. Queering Boundaries
6. Tears and Screams. Performances of Pleasure and Pain in the Bolero (Vanessa Knights)
7. Hey, Man, You're My Girlfriend! Poetic Genderfuck and Queer Hebrew in Eran Zur's Performance of Yona Wallach's Lyrics (Filad Padva)
8. Albita Rodriguez. Sexuality, Imaging, and Gender Construction in the Music of Exile (Mario Rey)
9. Su casa es mi casa. Latin House, Sexuality, Place (Stephen Amico)

Part 3. Too Close for Comfort
10. Too Much, Tatu Young. Queering Politics in the World of Tatu (Sarah Kerton)
11. "I Am Not in a Box of Any Description". Sinead O'Connor's Queer Outing (Emma Mayhew)
12. Gender Crossings. A Neglected History in African American Music (Jeffrey Callen)
13. Queer(ing) Masculinities in Heterosexist Rap Music (Freya Jarman-Ivens)
14. Closeness and Distance. Songs about AIDS (Paul Attinello)

Part 4. Glamorous Excess
15. Endless Caresses. Queer Exuberance in Large-Scale Form in Rock (Jennifer Rycenga)
16. Popular Music and the Dynamics of Desire (Sheila Whiteley)
17. Trans Glam. Gender Magic in the Film Musical (Lloyd Whitesell)
18. On Male Queering on Mainstream Pop (Stan Hawkins)

Contributors
Index