[ANPPOM-Lista] Queer Tracks: Subversive Strategies in Rock and Pop Music

[Carlos Palombini]

Queer Tracks: Subversive Strategies in Rock and Pop Music *Doris
Leibetseder, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria*


   - *Series : *Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
Series<http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=638&seriestitleID=251&calcTitle=1&forthcoming=1>
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   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 strategies are used in rock and pop music?’ ‘How do they
   function?’ ‘Where do they occur?’ Leibetseder's methodological process is
   to discover subversive strategies in queer theory, which are also used in
   rock and pop music, without assuming that these tactics were first invented
   in theory. Furthermore, this book explains where exactly the subversiveness
   is situated in those strategies and in popular music.
   With the help of a new kind of knowledge transfer the author combines
   sociological and cultural theories with practical examples of rock and pop
   music. The subversive character of these queer motifs is shown in the work
   of contemporary popular musicians and is at the same time related to
   classical discourses of the humanities.
   Queer Tracks is a revised translation of Queere Tracks. Subversive
   Strategien in Rock- und Popmusik, originally published in German.
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   *Contents: * Introduction: historical prelude; Irony - the cutting edge;
   Parody - gender trouble; Camp - queer revolt in style; Mask/masquerade -
   transforming the gaze; Mimesis/mimicry - poetic aesthetic; Cyborg -
   transhuman; Trans* - border wars?; Dildo - gender blender; Fade out:
   looking forward; Bibliography; Index.
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   *About the Author: * Doris Leibetseder is currently at the Centre for
   Women’s and Gender Studies at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt,
   Austria, and teaches courses in Gender Studies/Queer Theory. She is also
   external lecturer at the Karl-Franzens Universität Graz and the Universität
   Wien, Vienna. Previously, she was ÖAD-Lecturer for two years in the German
   Department of Durham University, UK. She was awarded her doctorate in
   Philosophy with distinction at the Universität Wien in 2008.
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   *Reviews: * ‘From Grace Jones to Gaga, divas to dildos, Queer Tracks is
   an original and theoretically important contribution to the corpus of queer
   popular music studies. Through captivating accounts of rock and pop
   performers and texts, Doris Leibetseder’s provocative analysis of queer
   aesthetics, tactics and subversive strategies makes for an utterly
   compelling and enlightening read.’
   Jodie Taylor, Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, Australia
   and author of Playing it Queer: Popular Music, Identity and Queer
   World-making

   ‘Queer Tracks takes up its place in a growing body of scholarship
   genuinely concerned with queer strategies in popular music. In it, Doris
   Leibetseder navigates well the waters of queer theory, drawing on a wide
   range of theoretical concepts, from irony, parody, satire and camp, through
   mimesis, mimicry, and masquerade, to cyborgs and trans. Along the way, she
   guides the reader confidently through well-informed interpretation of a
   number of classic cases - Madonna, Peaches, Björk, Grace Jones, Annie
   Lennox - and pulls in strands from feminism and critical race theory. This
   book will prove a useful resource to any scholar or student in the field of
   popular music studies who is interested in issues of gender, sexuality,
   race, or identity at its broadest.’
   Freya Jarman, University of Liverpool, UK
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   *Extracts from this title are available to view:*

   Full contents
list<http://www.ashgate.com/pdf/SamplePages/Queer-Tracks-Subversive-Strategies-in-Rock-and-Pop-Music-Cont.pdf>

   Introduction<http://www.ashgate.com/pdf/SamplePages/Queer-Tracks-Subversive-Strategies-in-Rock-and-Pop-Music-Intro.pdf>

   Index<http://www.ashgate.com/pdf/SamplePages/Queer-Tracks-Subversive-Strategies-in-Rock-and-Pop-Music-Index.pdf>


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carlos palombini
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