Queer Tracks: Subversive Strategies in Rock and Pop Music

by Doris Leibetseder

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409437027
• ISBN13: 9781409437024
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"