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Summary:

"Country music is often said to be "three chords and the truth." But the country music industry and related musical genres have not been particularly friendly to queer or trans musicians. Queer country musicians have developed a strategy of sincerity to engage critically with the postmodern deconstruction of essentialism (through which queer and trans experience has been understood as liberatory but also dangerously rebellious) while continuing to desire authenticity (in which their identities are accepted as real, human, and understandable to a cisgender and straight audience). Queer Country argues that country and folk music's fraught framing of common personhood, authenticity, and otherness (concepts especially important to and actively debated among transgender and queer people) are appealing in order to create stories of self, yet they simultaneously invite critique of tradition. Queer Country identifies a meaningful development in modern queer and transgender life and contemporary vernacular music, using ethnography, musical analysis, and historical methods to understand its contributions to changing notions of gender, genre, and tradition"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Queer Country and Sincerity
• Genre Trouble
• Rurality and Journey as Queer and Trans Musical Narratives
• (Mis)representation, Ownership, and Appropriation
• Masks, Sincerity, and (Re)claiming Country Music.

Author/Creator:

Goldin-Perschbacher, Shana , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Queer country [by Goldin-Perschbacher, S.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Queer country [by Goldin-Perschbacher, S.] (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2022 — ISBN 9780252044267; LCCN 2021046889)

Related Series:

Music in American life

Subjects:

Country music — History and criticism

Gender identity in music

Gay musicians

Transgender musicians

Country music

United States

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 24, 2022).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

ML3524 .G64 2022eb

ISBNs:

9780252053221 (electronic book)
0252053222 (electronic book)
9780252044267 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9780252086335 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2021046890

OCLC Numbers:

1276804952

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6916216 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp302782299