Rethinking Difference in Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Music: Theory and Politics of Ambiguity

Author:   Gavin Lee
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367593148


Pages:   198
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Gavin Lee
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.040kg
ISBN:  

9780367593148


ISBN 10:   0367593149
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"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. Détournement and female punk bands of the 1970s Helen L. Reddington 4. Ambiguities of S/M and goth cultures’ 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’ma 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’s multi-screen film installations Ellie M. Hisama Afterword: the world only spins forward Paul Attinello"

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Gavin Lee is Assistant Professor at Soochow University School of Music in China. He completed his doctoral studies at Duke University on avant-garde music in Singapore, and his core research interests include postcolonial theory, affect theory, queer theory, global modernity and modernism, and the Sinophone world. Lee’s research is published in Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Music Analysis (forthcoming), and in a book funded by the Singapore National Arts Council, Scions of the Musical West.

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