Rocking the Closet: How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Quee... (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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Rocking the Closet: How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music

(Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Forfatter: Vincent L Stephens
Rocking the Closet: How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music
Forlag: University of Illinois Press

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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 assumebut not seetheir 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 closetboth coming out and staying inby 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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Forlag University of Illinois Press
Forfatter Vincent L Stephens
Type Bog
Format Paperback / softback
Sprog Engelsk
Udgivelsesdato 14-10-2019
Første udgivelsesår 2019
Serie New Perspectives on Gender in Music
Illustrationer 16 black & white photographs
Originalsprog United States
Sideantal 248
Indbinding Paperback / softback
Forlag University of Illinois Press
Sideoplysninger 248 pages, 16 black & white photographs
Mål 151 x 228 x 21
ISBN-13 / EAN-13 9780252084638