- 236 pages
- English
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Queer Tracks: Subversive Strategies in Rock and Pop Music
About this book
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: 'Which queer-feminist strategies are used in rock and pop music?' 'How do they function?' 'Where do they occur?' Leibetseder's methodological process is to discover subversive strategies in queer theory, which are also used in rock and pop music, without assuming that these tactics were first invented in theory. Furthermore, this book explains where exactly the subversiveness is situated in those strategies and in popular music. With the help of a new kind of knowledge transfer the author combines sociological and cultural theories with practical examples of rock and pop music. The subversive character of these queer motifs is shown in the work of contemporary popular musicians and is at the same time related to classical discourses of the humanities. Queer Tracks is a revised translation of Queere Tracks. Subversive Strategien in Rock- und Popmusik, originally published in German.
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All index entries shown here correspond to the page numbers within the printed edition only. Within this digital format these page numbers allow for cross referencing only.
References to illustrations are in bold
ABBA, 70, 187
Absolutely Fabulous, 88
activism, 56, 92, 142, 151, 158, 160
Actor Slash Model, 165
Adorno, Theodor, 111–112, 116–117, 129
Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The, 70
affect, 19, 23, 75, 112–113, 117, 118, 127, 130, 137, 184
African American, 3, 5, 10, 26, 68, 80
Agnes, 156–158
Aguilera, Christine, 103
Ahmed, Sara, 1, 79, 187
A.I., 145
AIDS, 11, 67, 68
Akerlund, Jonas, 78
Alaska (a.k.a. Fangoria), 73
‘A quién le importa’, 73
‘Bailando’, 73
‘Rey del Glam’, 73
see also Fangoria
Alien, 140–141, 146
Alien 2, 88
Alien 3, 88
All the Pretty Horses, 165
Almodóvar, Pedro, 73
Almond, Marc, 6
alternative rock, 6
Anderson, Laurie, 27
androgynous, 6, 7, 9, 10, 59, 61, 70–73, 77, 96, 97, 101, 121, 152, 154, 159, 187
Ant, Adam, 6
Antony and the Johnsons, 126
Anzaldua, Gloria, 164
A.O. (Awkward...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- General Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Historical Prelude
- Track 01 Irony – The Cutting Edge
- Track 02 Parody – Gender Trouble
- Track 03 Camp – Queer Revolt in Style
- Track 04 Mask/Masquerade – Transforming the Gaze
- Track 05 Mimesis/Mimicry – Poetic Aesthetic
- Track 06 Cyborg – Transhuman
- Track 07 Trans* – Border Wars?
- Track 08 Dildo – Gender Blender
- Fade Out: Looking Forward
- Bibliography
- Index