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Rocking The Closet How Little Richard Johnnie Ray Liberace And Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music Vincent L Stephens

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Rocking The Closet How Little Richard Johnnie Ray Liberace And Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music Vincent L Stephens instant download after payment.

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 9.99 MB

Pages: 248

Author: Vincent L. Stephens

ISBN: 9780252084638, 0252084632

Language: English

Year: 2019

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Rocking The Closet How Little Richard Johnnie Ray Liberace And Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music Vincent L Stephens by Vincent L. Stephens 9780252084638, 0252084632 instant download after payment.

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 assume―but not see―their 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 closet―both coming out and staying in―by 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.