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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Sasha GeffenPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9781477318782ISBN 10: 147731878 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 07 April 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: An Alternate Ribbon of Time 1. Screaming the Beatles: The First Boy Band Breaks the Gender Mold 2. Oh! You Pretty Things: The Glitter Revolution 3. Whining Is Gender Neutral: Punk's Adolescent Escapism 4. Wreckers of Civilization: Post-punk, Goth, and Industrial 5. Soft Machines: Women, Cyborgs, and Electronic Music 6. Not a Woman, Not a Man: Prince's Sapphic Androgyny 7. The Fake Makes It Real: Synthpop and MTV 8. Infinite Utopia: Queer Time in Disco and House 9. Funky Cyborgs: Time, Technology, and Gender in Hip-Hop 10. Butch Throats: Women's Music and Riot Grrrl 11. God Is Gay: The Grunge Eruption 12. No Shape: The Formless Internet Coda: Whole New World Acknowledgments Notes IndexReviews[Glitter Up the Dark] is a unique examination of gender fluidity and queerness across genres of popular music; a must-read for music lovers. * Ms. Magazine * Glitter Up the Dark helps readers understand and contextualize gender performance in popular music. It might change the way you listen to and engage with your favorite records. * The Arts Fuse * Glitter Up the Dark is less a straightforward narrative of pop music gender play and nonconformity than a spiraling, exhilarating dance through its more and less famous manifestations...This prism of a book reflects a rainbow on all it touches. * Boston Globe * [An] incisive first book...[Geffen's] lucid prose is frequently enlivened by small, passing insights into music I've encountered a million times but will now forever hear refracted through their imagery and words...What I found most valuable about Glitter Up the Dark was the lens through which it looks back and invites us to notice how such seeming 'subversions' have always been present beneath the surface of even the most popular music...Reading this book often gave me the sensation that I was looking at a familiar scene through a kaleidoscope, suddenly seeing smeared borders and tiny, winking rainbows everywhere. * Bookforum * Geffen invokes canonical artists with wan mischief...and keeps finding curious historical details...Glitter Up the Dark lovingly describes the affinities drawn together by the act of listening. * Hazlitt * [Glitter Up the Dark] details, era by era, just how much popular music has done to break down the gender binary...one of the things I loved about the book is how Geffen celebrates the way that challenging the binary is inherent to the appeal of pop music for all people who approach it with open ears and hearts: it clears a space for all of us to more truly understand the human experience. * The Current * Geffen provides detailed insight into the ways queer and gender non-conforming artists shaped pop music-including punk and its antecedent, glam rock. * Chicago Reader * Geffen drags a shimmering thread that connects transgressive music histories that have defined not just queer culture but all of pop culture for decades...Geffen's book feels like the most fabulous tasting menu that will inspire readers to fall down the rabbit holes of so many of these stories. * Autostraddle * In an expansive and exuberant history Sasha Geffen celebrates music's liberatory potential to break down binary gender roles. * The Wire * Glitter Up the Dark is Geffen's definitive love letter to the power of music to inspire acceptance and transformation-both within ourselves, and in the world around us. * Foreword Reviews * Geffen's clear love and deep knowledge of the subject, along with insightful historical and critical arguments about the intertwining of gender and music, make this a deliciously necessary read for anyone interested in either pop culture or gender studies. * Library Journal, Starred Review * [An] ambitious first book...with Geffen's boundless love for music, deep listening skills, and expansive knowledge, they have queered the map of pop in language as accessible as a yellow brick road. * Lambda Literary * [Glitter Up the Dark] tells the story of queer artists and fans carving out space for their self-expression in an industry that capitalizes on pieces of the queer aesthetic, while simultaneously writing off those artists who are deemed too subversive or political. * Jezebel * This slim yet sprawling volume...overturns traditional approaches to pop-music history by revisiting popular stars, songs and genres through a gender-expansive, queer lens * Westword * An essential contribution to the modern music-book canon, made all the more intimate in Sasha Geffen's hands. * Pitchfork * Without attempting a comprehensive overview of queerness in music, Glitter Up the Dark nevertheless traces a clear path from the Beatles onwards...Whether it's the time-shifting energy of '70s New York clubs like the Loft, the 'sapphic androgyny' of Prince, or the gay masculine identification channeled through Grace Jones's 'I Need A Man,' Geffen makes clear that performers and their listeners have always been engaged in a lively, flirtatious exchange, constructing vibrant, expressive, and more fluid worlds in the space between each reverberating sound wave. * Nylon * Glitter Up the Dark is not just a chronicle of the transgressive possibilities of pop music but also a history of Geffen's listening and a demand that we regard pop culture in explicitly political terms. * The Nation * Through deft yet largely accessible analysis, Glitter Up the Dark feels like a revelatory unearthing, as Geffen carefully exposes threads of queerness that typical histories may choose to ignore or erase. * them * From Little Richard and Elvis to David Bowie and Prince, Glitter Up The Dark shows how artists have used music and its accompanying fashion and technology to subvert traditionally accepted forms of sexual identity-including what Geffen calls audio drag, wherein musicians inhabit shifting personas through vocal manipulation. While Geffen is more than comfortable digging into headier gender theory, the book remains accessible and well-crafted. * The A.V. Club * [Glitter Up the Dark] doesn't just discuss various subversions of typical masculine and feminine gender roles-it discusses how we came to accept the full gender spectrum with non-binary and third gender identities. Geffen chronicles gender fluidity in music from the 20th century to the present, discussing everyone from early blues artists and David Bowie to Missy Elliot and riot grrrl bands. * Paste Magazine * [Glitter Up the Dark] is a unique examination of gender fluidity and queerness across genres of popular music; a must-read for music lovers. * Ms. Magazine * This is how Glitter Up the Dark, and all of Geffen's writing, works: Once you start reading it, you'll hear the world through new ears. You'll devour Glitter Up the Dark with eyes wide and mind racing, drawing connections to whatever music you listen to. It's exciting. And if you're a queer or trans listener, it's validating reading about how generations of us have found a haven in music. * Vulture * A must-read for all those interested in the politics of sound. * The Guardian * Author InformationSasha Geffen is a writer based in Colorado. Their work focuses on the intersections between pop culture and gender and has appeared in Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Artforum, theNation, and theNew Inquiry, among others. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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