Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary

by Sasha Geffen

Book Overview

Why has music so often served as an accomplice to transcendent expressions of gender? Why did the query is he musical? become code, in the twentieth century, for is he gay? Why is music so inherently queer? For Sasha Geffen, the answers lie, in part, in music's intrinsic quality of subliminal expression, which, through paradox and contradiction, allows rigid gender roles to fall away in a sensual and ambiguous exchange between performer and listener...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147731878X
• ISBN13: 9781477318782
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"