Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary Geffen Sasha
Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary Geffen Sasha Why has music so often served as an accomplice to transcendent expressions of gender? become code, in the twentieth century, for is he…
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Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary Geffen Sasha
Why has music so often served as an accomplice to transcendent expressions of gender? become code, in the twentieth century, for is he gay? Why did the query is he musical?
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. Why is music so inherently queer? 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