Queer Tracks: Subversive Strategies in Rock and Pop Music

ISBN-13: 9781138261655 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 236 str.

Doris Leibetseder

Opis

Revised translation of Queere Tracks. Subversive Strategien in Rock- und Popmusik.

Recenzje

’From Grace Jones to Gaga, divas to dildos, Queer Tracks is an original and theoretically important contribution to the corpus of queer popular music studies. Through captivating accounts of rock and pop performers and texts, Doris Leibetseder’s provocative analysis of queer aesthetics, tactics and subversive strategies makes for an utterly compelling and enlightening read.’ Jodie Taylor, Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, Australia and author of Playing it Queer: Popular Music, Identity and Queer World-making ’Queer Tracks takes up its place in a growing body of scholarship genuinely concerned with queer strategies in popular music. In it, Doris Leibetseder navigates well the waters of queer theory, drawing on a wide range of theoretical concepts, from irony, parody, satire and camp, through mimesis, mimicry, and masquerade, to cyborgs and trans. Along the way, she guides the reader confidently through well-informed interpretation of a number of classic cases - Madonna, Peaches, Björk, Grace Jones, Annie Lennox - and pulls in strands from feminism and critical race theory. This book will prove a useful resource to any scholar or student in the field of popular music studies who is interested in issues of gender, sexuality, race, or identity at its broadest.’ Freya Jarman, University of Liverpool, UK

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: historical prelude; Irony - the cutting edge; Parody - gender trouble; Camp - queer revolt in style; Mask/masquerade - transforming the gaze; Mimesis/mimicry - poetic aesthetic; Cyborg - transhuman; Trans* - border wars?; Dildo - gender blender; Fade out: looking forward; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Doris Leibetseder is currently at the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria, and teaches courses in Gender Studies/Queer Theory. She is also external lecturer at the Karl-Franzens Universität Graz and the Universität Wien, Vienna. Previously, she was ÖAD-Lecturer for two years in the German Department of Durham University, UK. She was awarded her doctorate in Philosophy with distinction at the Universität Wien in 2008.