Sheila Whiteley

Jennifer Rycenga

Presents essays in the study of popular music and situate queering within the discourse of sex and sexuality in relation to popular music. This work explores topics including the changing debates within gay, lesbian and queer discourse and how these relate to the dissemination of musical-texts performance, cultural production and sexual meaning.

Queering the Popular Pitch

Queering the Popular Pitch is a new collection of 19 essays that situate queering within the discourse of sex and sexuality in relation to popular music. This investigation addresses the changing debates within gay, lesbian and queer discourse in relation to the dissemination of musical texts -performance, cultural production and sexual meaning - situating music within the broader patterns of culture that it both mirrors and actively reproduces. The collection is divided into four parts: queering borders queer spaces hidden histories queer thoughts, mixed media. Queering the Popular Pitch will appeal to students of popular music, Gay and Lesbian studies. With case studies and essays by leading popular music scholars it provides insightful discourse in a growing field of musicological research.

Marguerite Waller

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Jennifer Rycenga

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