Sasha Geffen – Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary – Paperback Hayley Mills Catalogue number: 838 505-2

Catalogue number: 838 505-2

1989 original

Grian Chatten

Year of release: 2008

Western Nights

Sasha Geffen – Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary – Paperback Hayley Mills Catalogue number: 838 505-2Why has music so often served as an accomplice to transcendent expressions of gender? For Sasha Geffen, the answers lie, in part, in musics intrinsic quality of subliminal expression, which, through paradox and contradiction, allows rigid gender roles to fall away in a sensual and ambiguous exchange between performer and listener. Glitter Up the Dark traces the history of this gender fluidity in pop music from the early twentieth century to the