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ISBN: 9780812476774
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Languages : en
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Something Queer in Rock 'n' Roll
Author: Something Queer in Rock 'n' Roll
Author: Elizabeth LevyPublisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780440502258
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Languages : en
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Something Queer in Rock 'n' Roll
Author: Elizabeth LevyPublisher: Yearling
ISBN: 9780440401599
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Preparing for a rock 'n' roll contest in which they need a dog's howl over a pizza, the gang becomes desperate when their dog loses all interest in pizza.
Something Queer at the Lemonade Stand
Author: Elizabeth LevyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780440078593
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
When Gwen and Jill open a lemonade stand, something strange happens to their lemonade every time their dog Fletcher disappears.
Glitter Up the Dark
Author: Sasha GeffenPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 147731878X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
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. Glitter Up the Dark traces the history of this gender fluidity in pop music from the early twentieth century to the present day. Starting with early blues and the Beatles and continuing with performers such as David Bowie, Prince, Missy Elliot, and Frank Ocean, Geffen explores how artists have used music, fashion, language, and technology to break out of the confines mandated by gender essentialism and establish the voice as the primary expression of gender transgression. From glam rock and punk to disco, techno, and hip-hop, music helped set the stage for today’s conversations about trans rights and recognition of nonbinary and third-gender identities. Glitter Up the Dark takes a long look back at the path that led here.
Why Karen Carpenter Matters
Author: Karen TongsonPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477318860
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. At the same time, the uplifting harmonies and sunny lyrics that propelled Karen Carpenter and her brother, Richard, to international fame belied a different sort of tragedy—the underconsumption that led to Karen's death at age thirty-two from the effects of an eating disorder. In Why Karen Carpenter Matters, Karen Tongson (whose Filipino musician parents named her after the pop icon) interweaves the story of the singer’s rise to fame with her own trans-Pacific journey between the Philippines—where imitations of American pop styles flourished—and Karen Carpenter’s home ground of Southern California. Tongson reveals why the Carpenters' chart-topping, seemingly whitewashed musical fantasies of "normal love" can now have profound significance for her—as well as for other people of color, LGBT+ communities, and anyone outside the mainstream culture usually associated with Karen Carpenter’s legacy. This hybrid of memoir and biography excavates the destructive perfectionism at the root of the Carpenters’ sound, while finding the beauty in the singer's all too brief life.
Something Queer in the Cafeteria
Author: Elizabeth LevyPublisher: Disney-Hyperion
ISBN: 9780786800018
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Jill and Gwen have never gotten into trouble before, but suddenly every time they're in the cafeteria, something goes terribly wrong.
Girls Can Kiss Now
Author: Jill GutowitzPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982158506
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A "collection of personal essays exploring the intersection of queerness, relationships, pop culture, the Internet, and identity, introducing one of the most undeniably original new voices today. Jill Gutowitz's life--for better and worse--has always been on a collision course with pop culture, [including] ... the pivotal day when Orange Is the New Black hit the airwaves and broke down the door to Jill's own sexuality. In these honest examinations of identity, desire, and self-worth, Jill explores perhaps the most monumental cultural shift of our lifetimes: the mainstreaming of lesbian culture"--
The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance, & Musical Theater
Author: Claude J. SummersPublisher: Cleis Press
ISBN: 1573441988
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This unique encyclopedia showcases the contribution of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer people to music, dance, and musical theater.
Rock on the Wild Side
Author: Wayne StuderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Gay Images in the Popular Music of the Rock Era In this pioneering book the author reviews songs/albums with gay themes issued during the rock era of the past thirty years. Included are such artists as: David Bowie, Elton John, Boy George, Little Richard, Village People, Bronski Beat, Pet Shop Boys and many more. Illustrated with over 30 photographs.