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Rocking the Closet
- How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music
Engelsk Paperback

Rocking the Closet

- How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music
Engelsk Paperback

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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 an understandable fear, but also a struggle to fulfill personal and professional expectations. Vincent L. Stephens confronts notions of the closet-both coming out and staying in-by analyzing the careers of Liberace, Johnny Mathis, Johnnie Ray, and Little Richard. Appealing to audiences hungry for novelty and exoticism, the four pop icons used performance and queering techniques that ran the gamut. Liberace's flamboyance shared a spectrum with Mathis's intimate sensitivity while Ray's overwrought displays as "Mr. Emotion" seemed worlds apart from Little Richard's raise-the-roof joyousness. As Stephens shows, the quartet not only thrived in an era of gray flannel manhood, they pioneered the ways generations of later musicians would consciously adopt sexual mystery as an appealing and proven route to success.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
248
ISBN-13:
9780252084638
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0252084632
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Udg. Dato:
14 okt 2019
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
151mm
Forlag:
University of Illinois Press
Oplagsdato:
14 okt 2019
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