Rethinking Difference in Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Music

This book offers critically-oriented case studies that examine the theory and politics of ambiguity. Covering popular music from around the globe, contributors approach the topic through music, sound, psyche, body, dance, performance, race, ethnicity, power, discourse, and history, visiting genres including gay circuit remixes, punk rock, Goth music, cross-dress performance, billboard 100 songs, global pop, and 19th-century minstrelsy. This book will be of interest to fields including Popular Music Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Performance Studies, Queer Studies, and Sound Studies.