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Rocking the Closet: How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis
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- Book Title
- Rocking the Closet: How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, an
- Publication Date
- 2019-10-16
- Pages
- 248
- ISBN
- 9780252042805
- Publication Name
- Rocking the Closet : How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Series
- New Perspectives on Gender in Music Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 19.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 248 Pages
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The all-embracing, ""whaddya got?"" nature of rebellion in Fifties America included pop music's unlikely challenge to entrenched notions of masculinity. Within that upheaval, four prominent artists dared to behave in ways that let the public assume--but not see--their queerness. That these artists cultivated ambiguous sexual personas often reflected ......
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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
ISBN-10
0252042808
ISBN-13
9780252042805
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27038275604
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Rocking the Closet : How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Series
New Perspectives on Gender in Music Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
19.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ml3477.S75 2019
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"Distinguished by excellent writing Rocking the Closet achieves the admirable goal of being both a sound scholarly work and accessible to readers from all walks of life. It raises provocative ideas and arguments, challenging entrenched ways of thinking about the history of queerness in postwar America." -- Notes, An Advocate Best Queer Non-Fiction Book of 2019 "Stephen's Rocking the Closet investigates how contemporary queer stars such as Little Richard navigated the mid-twentieth-century popular music landscape and, as important, how observers reacted to their unconventional gender presentation. . . . Stephens should be commended for the diverse range of primary sources marshalled in his study. . . . Rocking the Closet presents students and practitioners of queer cultural history, as well as those studying post-war cultural history, with fresher methods of examining popular culture and its legacies." -- Cultural History, This is culturally and historically informed scholarship of the highest order. Stephens seeks to question and complicate the established historical way of thinking, and to provide a nuanced reading of queerness that admits the powerful possibilities of the 'open secret' in a pre-Liberation era when popular male musicians neither could nor necessarily desired to come out of the closet.--Theo Cateforis, author of Are We Not New Wave? Modern Pop at the turn of the 1980s, "The contemporary mainstream LGBT narrative claims that artists should out themselves for the greater good. But Rocking the Closet makes a persuasive case that 'open secrecy' helped make stars of Little Richard, Liberace, Johnny Mathis, and Johnny Ray in the decades prior to and after Stonewall. These (until now) academically under-examined, yet enormously successful and influential musicians used the surprising leeway of the glass closet to develop artistic personae that were both appealing and ambiguous, leading to commercial success that rivals that of our current musicians. Stephens' insightful intersectional book will liven the debate in identity and popular culture scholarship!"--Shana Goldin-Perschbacher, Temple University, The contemporary mainstream LGBT narrative claims that artists should out themselves for the greater good. But Rocking the Closet makes a persuasive case that 'open secrecy' helped make stars of Little Richard, Liberace, Johnny Mathis, and Johnny Ray in the decades prior to and after Stonewall. These (until now) academically under-examined, yet enormously successful and influential musicians used the surprising leeway of the glass closet to develop artistic personae that were both appealing and ambiguous, leading to commercial success that rivals that of our current musicians. Stephens' insightful intersectional book will liven the debate in identity and popular culture scholarship!--Shana Goldin-Perschbacher, Temple University, "This is culturally and historically informed scholarship of the highest order. Stephens seeks to question and complicate the established historical way of thinking, and to provide a nuanced reading of queerness that admits the powerful possibilities of the 'open secret' in a pre-Liberation era when popular male musicians neither could nor necessarily desired to come out of the closet."--Theo Cateforis, author of Are We Not New Wave? Modern Pop at the turn of the 1980s, "This is culturally and historically informed scholarship of the highest order. Stephens seeks to question and complicate the established historical way of thinking, and to provide a nuanced reading of queerness that admits the powerful possibilities of the 'open secret' in a pre-Liberation era when popular male musicians neither could nor necessarily desired to come out of the closet."--Theo Cateforis, author of Are We Not New Wave? Modern Pop at the turn of the 1980s "Well-argued and thoughtful." -- Arts Fuse, "Scholars interested in queer history, music history, race, and American popular culture generally will therefore learn much from this excellent book." -- Journal of the History of Sexuality, " Rocking the Closet is a worthy contribution to better understanding the queering of postwar masculine identities and popular music. . . . As the barriers between folk and popular cultures continue to be dismantled, scholarship such as Rocking the Closet follows an interdisciplinary trajectory that will satisfy scholars across disciplines." -- Western Folklore, "The spirit of Rocking the Closet is enjoyed in how deftly Stephens illuminates those nuances. He is as lucid about the music as about the cultural moment, the entertainment business, and the lives of the musicians." -- On the Seawall, "The contemporary mainstream LGBT narrative claims that artists should out themselves for the greater good. But Rocking the Closet makes a persuasive case that 'open secrecy' helped make stars of Little Richard, Liberace, Johnny Mathis, and Johnny Ray in the decades prior to and after Stonewall. These (until now) academically under-examined, yet enormously successful and influential musicians used the surprising leeway of the glass closet to develop artistic personae that were both appealing and ambiguous, leading to commercial success that rivals that of our current musicians. Stephens' insightful intersectional book will liven the debate in identity and popular culture scholarship!"--Shana Goldin-Perschbacher, Temple University "The spirit of Rocking the Closet is enjoyed in how deftly Stephens illuminates those nuances. He is as lucid about the music as about the cultural moment, the entertainment business, and the lives of the musicians." -- On the Seawall, An Advocate Best Queer Non-Fiction Book of 2019 "This is culturally and historically informed scholarship of the highest order. Stephens seeks to question and complicate the established historical way of thinking, and to provide a nuanced reading of queerness that admits the powerful possibilities of the 'open secret' in a pre-Liberation era when popular male musicians neither could nor necessarily desired to come out of the closet."--Theo Cateforis, author of Are We Not New Wave? Modern Pop at the turn of the 1980s
Copyright Date
2019
Topic
History & Criticism, Lgbt Studies / General, Composers & Musicians, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Individual Composer & Musician
Lccn
2019-013782
Dewey Decimal
781.64086/640973
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Music, Social Science
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