Queer Country
Queer Country
Goldin-Perschbacher, Shana
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Condition: New, UPC: 9780252086335, Publication Date: Tue, March 1, 2022, Type: Paperback ,
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  • A Variety Best Music Book of 2022
  • A No Depression Most Memorable Music Book of 2022
  • A Library Journal Best Arts and Humanities Book of 2022
  • A Pitchfork Best Music Book of 2022
  • A Boot Best Music Book of 2022
  • A Ticketmaster Best Music Book of 2022
  • A Happy Magazine Best Music Book of 2022

Though frequently ignored by the music mainstream, queer and transgender country and Americana artists have made essential contributions as musicians, performers, songwriters, and producers. Queer Country blends ethnographic research with analysis and history to provide the first in-depth study of these artists and their work. Shana Goldin-Perschbacher delves into the careers of well-known lesbian artists like k.d. lang and Amy Ray and examines the unlikely success of singer-songwriter Patrick Haggerty, who found fame forty years after releasing the first out gay country album. She also focuses on later figures like nonbinary transgender musician Rae Spoon and renowned drag queen country artist Trixie Mattel; and on recent breakthrough artists like Orville Peck, Amythyst Kiah, and chart-topping Grammy-winning phenomenon Lil Nas X. Many of these musicians place gender and sexuality front and center even as it complicates their careers. But their ongoing efforts have widened the circle of country/Americana by cultivating new audiences eager to connect with the artists' expansive music and personal identities.

Detailed and one-of-a-kind, Queer Country reinterprets country and Americana music through the lives and work of artists forced to the margins of the genre's history.

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