Queer Tracks describes motifs in popular music that deviate from heterosexual orientation, the binary gender system and fixed identities. This exciting cutting-edge work deals with the key concepts of current gender politics and queer theory in rock and pop music, including irony, parody, camp, mask/masquerade, mimesis/mimicry, cyborg, transsexuality, and dildo. Based on a constructivist concept of gender, Leibetseder asks: a Which queer-feminist strategies are used in rock and pop music?' a How do they function?' a Where do they occur?' Leibetseder's methodological process is to discover...

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