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

From 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. Why has music so often served as an accomplice to transcendent expressions of gender? Why did the query "is he musi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:American Music Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION An Alternate Ribbon of Time
  • 1 SCREAMING THE BEATLES The First Boy Band Breaks the Gender Mold
  • 2 OH! YOU PRETTY THINGS The Glitter Revolution
  • 3 WHINING IS GENDER NEUTRAL Punk's Adolescent Escapism
  • 4 WRECKERS OF CIVILIZATION Post-punk, Goth, and Industrial
  • 5 SOFT MACHINES Women, Cyborgs, and Electronic Music
  • 6 NOT A WOMAN, NOT A MAN Prince's Sapphic Androgyny
  • 7 THE FAKE MAKES I T REAL Synthpop and MTV
  • 8 INFINITE UTOPIA Queer Time in Disco and House
  • 9 FUNKY CYBORGS Time, Technology, and Gender in Hip-Hop
  • 10 BUTCH THROATS Women's Music and Riot Grrrl
  • 11 GOD IS GAY The Grunge Eruption
  • 12 NO SHAPE The Formless Internet
  • CODA Whole New World
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTES
  • INDEX