Rethinking Difference in Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Music

Name: Rethinking Difference in Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Music
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

1. Introduction: from difference to ambiguity Gavin Lee 2. When the bearded lady sings: ambiguity aesthetics, queer identity, and the gendering of the presentational voice Mario Rey 3. D\u00E9tournement and female punk bands of the 1970s Helen L. Reddington 4. Ambiguities of S/M and goth cultures\u2019 sex/gender identity politics Carol Siegel 5. Flower in the mirror and moon in the water: the ambiguity of gender, genre, and politics of Li Yugang Qian Wang 6. What counts as \""queer\"" in an historical context?: cross dressing in nineteenth-century theatre Gillian M. Rodger 7. Funny girls and nowhere boys: reversing the gaze in the popular music biopic Matthew Bannister 8. \""I\u2019ma school that bitch\"": gay rappers defying binaries and expressing fierceness Kirsten Zemke and Jared Mackley-Crump 9. Queer desire is not gay, gender is a fantasy: ways of loving Britney Gavin Lee 10. \""Blackness in a white void\"": dissonance and ambiguity in Isaac Julien\u2019s multi-screen film installato