Rethinking Difference in Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Music: Theory and Politics of Ambiguity

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Gavin Lee

Rethinking Difference in Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Music

Theory and Politics of Ambiguity

Gavin Lee

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Routledge
30 June 2020

Theory of music & musicology; Literary theory; Popular culture; Media studies; Gender studies, gender groups

Series: Routledge Studies in Popular Music

"In studies of gender and sexuality in popular music, the concept of difference is often a crucial analytic used to detect social agency; however, the alternative analytic of ambiguity has never been systematically examined. While difference from heterosexual norms is taken to be the multivalent sign of resistance, oppression, and self-invention, it can lead to inflated claims of the degree and power of difference. This book offers critically-oriented case studies that examine the theory and politics of ambiguity. Ambiguity means that there are both positive and negative implications in any gender and sexuality practices, both sameness and difference from heteronormativity, and unfixed possibility in the diverse nature of discourse and practice (rather than just ""difference"" among fixed multiplicities). Contributors present a diverse array of approaches through music, sound, psyche, body, dance, performance, race, ethnicity, power, discourse, and history. A wide variety of popular music genres are broached, including gay circuit remixes, punk rock, Goth music, cross-dress performance, billboard 100 songs, global pop, and nineteenth-century minstrelsy. The authors examine the ambiguities of performance and reception, and address the vexed question of whether it is possible for genuinely new forms of gender and sexuality to emerge musically. This book makes a distinctive contribution to studies of gender and sexuality in popular music, and will be of interest to fields including Popular Music Studies, Musicology/Ethnomusicology, Cultural Studies, Queer Studies, and Media Studies."

Edited by: Gavin Lee
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 40g
ISBN: 9780367593148
ISBN 10: 0367593149
Series: Routledge Studies in Popular Music
Pages: 198
Publication Date: 30 June 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gavin Lee is Assistant Professor at Soochow University School of Music in China. He completed his doctoral studies at Duke University on avant-garde music in Singapore, and his core research interests include postcolonial theory, affect theory, queer theory, global modernity and modernism, and the Sinophone world. Lee’s research is published in Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Music Analysis (forthcoming), and in a book funded by the Singapore National Arts Council, Scions of the Musical West.