The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
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The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman

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The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman

About this book

A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us.

When Wilco's 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was infamously criticized as "dad rock," Niko Stratis was a twenty-five-year-old closeted trans woman working in her dad's glass shop in the Yukon Territory. As she sought escape from her hypermasculine environment, Stratis found an unlikely lifeline amid dad rock's emotionally open and honest music. Listening to dad rock, Stratis could access worlds beyond her own and imagine a path forward.

In taut, searing essays rendered in propulsive and unguarded prose, Stratis delves into the emotional core of bands like Wilco and The National, telling her story through the dad rock that accompanied her along the way. She found footing in Michael Stipe's allusions to queer longing, Radiohead's embrace of unknowability, and Bruce Springsteen's very trans desire to "change my clothes my hair my face"—and she found in artists like Neko Case and Sharon Van Etten that the label transcends gender. A love letter to the music that saves us and a tribute to dads like Stratis's own who embody the tenderness at the genre's heart, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman rejoices in music unafraid to bare its soul.

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Information

Publisher
University of Texas Press
Year
2025
Print ISBN
9781477331484
eBook ISBN
9781477331507
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Far away from dry land, and its bitter memories
  9. Bitter melodies, turning your orbit around
  10. The whole world will be listening now
  11. Got to be something better than in the middle
  12. Why the hell are you so sad?
  13. If I could be who you wanted, all the time
  14. See you in heaven if you make the list
  15. He might be a father but he sure ain’t a dad
  16. Last night I dreamt I’d forgotten my name
  17. Take my hand and help me not to shake
  18. Play with matches if you think you need to play with matches
  19. I can’t think of floorboards anymore
  20. I’m ready for both of us now
  21. Want to change my clothes, my hair, my face
  22. Pick up the pieces and go home
  23. It’s the mercy I can’t take
  24. We’re all supposed to try
  25. I wanna see it when you find out what comets, stars, and moons are all about
  26. I never thought about love when I thought about home
  27. If the dead just go on living, well there’s nothing left to fear