Queering the Popular Pitch

Sheila Whiteley · Jennifer Rycenga

Jan 2013 · Routledge

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About this eBook

Queering the Popular Pitch is a new collection of 19 essays that situate queering within the discourse of sex and sexuality in relation to popular music. This investigation addresses the changing debates within gay, lesbian and queer discourse in relation to the dissemination of musical texts -performance, cultural production and sexual meaning - situating music within the broader patterns of culture that it both mirrors and actively reproduces.

The collection is divided into four parts:
queering borders

queer spaces

hidden histories

queer thoughts, mixed media.

Queering the Popular Pitch will appeal to students of popular music, Gay and Lesbian studies. With case studies and essays by leading popular music scholars it provides insightful discourse in a growing field of musicological research.

About the author

Sheila Whiteley is Chair of Popular Music at the University of Salford. She is the author of Sexing theGroove: Popular Music and Gender ,Women and Popular Music: Sexuality, Identity and Subjectivity and Too Much TooYoung: Popular Music, Age and Identity all published by Routledge.
Jennifer Rycenga is Coordinator of Women's Studies at San Jose State University in California. She coedited Frontline Feminisms: Women, War, and Resistancewith Marguerite Waller (Garland 2001). She has written for repurcussions, The Encyclopedia of Women and WorldReligion, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music and TheEncyclopedia of Popular Music of the World..

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