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Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 22 Sep 2023 01:50:43
Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary

Sasha Geffen, "Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary "
English | ISBN: 147731878X | 2020 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB

From the Beatles to Prince to Perfume Genius, Glitter Up the Dark takes a historical look at the voices that transcended gender and the ways music has subverted the gender binary.

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.
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