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  1. Queer country
    Published: [2022]; ©2022
    Publisher:  University of Illinois Press, Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield

    "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... more

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    "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"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780252044267; 9780252086335
    RVK Categories: LS 48610
    Series: Music in American life
    Subjects: Countrymusic; Queer-Theorie
    Other subjects: Country music / History and criticism; Gender identity in music; Gay musicians; Transgender musicians; Identité sexuelle dans la musique; Musiciens homosexuels; Musiciens transgenres; Country music; Gay musicians; Gender identity in music; Transgender musicians; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: x, 268 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    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

  2. Queer country
    Published: [2022]; © 2022
    Publisher:  University of Illinois Press, Urbana

    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Georg Forster-Gebäude / USA-Bibliothek
    781.642 GOL
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780252086335; 9780252044267
    RVK Categories: LS 48610 ; LR 56618
    Series: Music in American life
    Subjects: Countrymusic; Queer-Theorie
    Scope: x, 268 Seiten, Illustrationen, Fotografien
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    Diskografie Seite 229-234

    Literaturverzeichnis Seite 235-250

  3. Queer country
    Published: [2022]; ©2022
    Publisher:  University of Illinois Press, Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield

    "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... more

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    "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"--

     

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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780252044267; 9780252086335
    RVK Categories: LS 48610
    Series: Music in American life
    Subjects: Countrymusic; Queer-Theorie
    Other subjects: Country music / History and criticism; Gender identity in music; Gay musicians; Transgender musicians; Identité sexuelle dans la musique; Musiciens homosexuels; Musiciens transgenres; Country music; Gay musicians; Gender identity in music; Transgender musicians; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: x, 268 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    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