Title Rocking the closet : how Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis queered pop music / Vincent L. Stephens.

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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]

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Description	1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations.
	data file rda
Series	New perspectives on gender in music
	New perspectives on gender in music.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : queering post-World War II masculinity through music -- Visibly hidden : postwar disorientation, queer community, and queer ambivalence -- A freak deferred : Johnnie Ray navigates innovation and convention -- Spectacular vacillations : Little Richard charms and disarms America -- Fine and dandy : mapping Johnny Mathis's negotiations of race, sexuality, and affect -- Building an empire of illusion : Liberace and the art of queering -- Conclusion : disquieting and exciting : queering tools in popular music and queer becoming.
Note	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 30, 2020).
Subject	Little Richard, 1932-2020.
	Ray, Johnnie, 1927-1990.
	Liberace, 1919-1987.
	Mathis, Johnny.
	Liberace, 1919-1987. (OCoLC)fst00017119
	Little Richard, 1932-2020. (OCoLC)fst01466898
	Mathis, Johnny. (OCoLC)fst00091903
	Ray, Johnnie, 1927-1990. (OCoLC)fst00240561
	Homosexuality and popular music -- United States.
	Gay musicians -- United States.
	Gay singers -- United States.
	Music and race -- United States.
	MUSIC -- General.
	Gay musicians. (OCoLC)fst00939197
	Gay singers. (OCoLC)fst01762575
	Homosexuality and popular music. (OCoLC)fst01738576
	Music and race. (OCoLC)fst01030486
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Other Form:	Print version: Stephens, Vincent L. Rocking the closet. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019] 9780252042805 (DLC) 2019013782
ISBN	9780252051661 (electronic book)
	0252051661 (electronic book)

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