In studies of gender and sexuality in popular music, the concept of difference is often a crucial analytic used to detect social agency; however, the alternative analytic of ambiguity has never been systematically examined. While differencefrom heterosexual norms is taken to be the multivalent sign of resistance, oppression, and self-invention, it can lead to inflated claims of the degree and power of difference. This book offers critically-oriented case studies that examine how the analytics of sameness and difference combine to produce both gender replication and the ambiguity of...
In studies of gender and sexuality in popular music, the concept of difference is often a crucial analytic used to detect social agency; however, t...