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

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Description	1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Little Richard, 1932-2020.
	Ray, Johnnie, 1927-1990.
	Liberace, 1919-1987.
	Mathis, Johnny.
	Homosexuality and popular music -- United States.
	Gay musicians -- United States.
	Gay singers -- United States.
	Music and race -- United States.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
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)
	9780252042805 (hardcover alkaline paper)
	0252042808
	9780252042805