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Summary:

The Jazz Age, a phenomenon that shaped American leisure culture in the early twentieth century, coincided with the growth of Kansas City, Missouri, from frontier town to metropolitan city. Though Kansas City's music, culture, and stars are well covered, Queering Kansas City Jazz supplements the grand narrative of jazz history by including queer identities in the city's history while framing the jazz-scene experience in terms of identity and space. Cabarets, gender impressionism clubs, and sites of sex tourism in Kansas City served as world-making spaces for those whose performance of identity transgressed hegemonic notions of gender, sexuality, race, and class. Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide a critical deconstruction of how the jazz scene offered a space for nonnormative gender practice and performance and acted as a site of contested identity and spatial territory.

Table of Contents:

• Rethinking Kansas City's jazz story
• Kansas City's jazz scene
• The myth of the wide-open town
• Sissy nights at the spinning wheel
• Crib girls to criminals
• Queering Dante's inferno
• Remembering KC.

Author/Creator:

Clifford-Napoleone, Amber R., 1974- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English text.

Main Work:

Queering Kansas City jazz: gender, performance, and the history of a scene [by Clifford-Napoleone, A.R.]

Related Series:

Expanding frontiers

Subjects:

Gender identity in music

Jazz — Missouri — Kansas City — History and criticism

Jazz — Social aspects — Missouri — Kansas City — History

Jazz

Jazz — Social aspects

Missouri — Kansas City

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index: pages 191-212.

Physical Description:

xi, 212 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

ML3508.8.K37 C4 2018

ISBNs:

9780803262911 (hardcover, alkaline paper)
0803262914 (hardcover, alkaline paper)
9781496210326 (electronic book) [Invalid]
9781496210333 (electronic book) [Invalid]
9781496210340 (electronic book) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2017056171

OCLC Numbers:

1015275224