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Queer Tracks: Subversive Strategies in Rock and Pop Music (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) - Softcover

Book 85 of 167: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music

Leibetseder, Doris

 
9781138261655: Queer Tracks: Subversive Strategies in Rock and Pop Music (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1138261653 ISBN 13: 9781138261655
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

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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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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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138261653
ISBN 13 
9781138261655
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
240