Queering the Popular Pitch

by Sheila Whiteley (Editor), Jennifer Rycenga (Editor)

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
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.

Genres: Music, LGBT, Nonfiction

328 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Sheila Whiteley has an international reputation as a feminist musicologist, writer and researcher into issues of identify and subjectivity.

She was awarded the first Chair of Popular Music in the UK in 2000 for her work in gender, sexuality and culture and she continues to influence generations of academics, researchers and musicologists.

Reviews

[Alyx · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great to read alongside "Oh Boy," as we get Justin and Eminem queered alongside Sleater-Kinney, TATU, PJ Harvey, "Velvet Goldmine," Big Mama Thorton, and a slew of others.