Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary - Sasha Geffen

Descriere Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary - Sasha Geffen

\n \nFrom the Beatles to Prince to Perfume Genius, Glitter Up the Dark takes a historical look at the voices that transcended gender and the ways music has subverted the gender binary.\n \n \n \nWhy has music so often served as an accomplice to transcendent expressions of gender? Why did the query is he musical? become code, in the twentieth century, for is he gay? Why is music so inherently queer? For Sasha Geffen, the answers lie, in part, in music's intrinsic quality of subliminal expression, which, through paradox and contradiction, allows rigid gender roles to fall away in a sensual and ambiguous exchange between performer and listener. Glitter Up the Dark traces the history of this gender fluidity in pop music from the early twentieth century to the present day.\n \nStarting with early blues and the Beatles and continuing with performers such as David Bowie, Prince, Missy Elliot, and Frank Ocean, Geffen explores how artists have used music, fashion, language, and technology to break out of the confines mandated by gender essentialism and establish the voice as the primary expression of gender transgression. From glam rock and punk to disco, techno, and hip-hop, music helped set the stage for today's conversations about trans rights and recognition of nonbinary and third-gender identities. Glitter Up the Dark takes a long look back at the path that led here.\n

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University Of Texas Press

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9781477318782

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