Playing it Queer

Jodie Taylor received her PhD in Musicology from Griffith University, Australia. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cultural Sociology at the Griffith Centre for Cultural Research (2009–12), and is currently a Research Fellow at the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre. She has published numerous articles on aspects of queer culture, popular music and ethnography and is currently co-editing three anthologies on erotic cultures, festivalisation and mainstream music.

Contents: Gender and sexual identities - Queer and feminist theory - Popular music, identity, subcultures and scenes - Camp sensibility and queer aesthetics - Drag queens and kings, genderfuck and musical performance - Queercore and the 'anti-gay' politics of queer punk - Riot grrrl, riot dykes and feminist popular music-making - Mainstream gay scenes, queer and alternative scenes and style distinction - Locality, translocality and world-making - Music and the queer utopian imagination.

«This is an exemplary study of queer music-making. An engrossing read, it covers a range of topics many scholars in popular music, as well as queer and gender studies, will find eminently useful and insightful. [...] Taylor's book provides us with an inspiring and invigorating model of scholarship, bringing together a range of concepts, terms and approaches to develop a rich and provocative theoretical matrix. This aligns very usefully with a methodology that is both reflexive as well as marked by a depth of participant observation that is admirable, giving the entire book a richness that comes through in Taylor's theoretical musings as well as in the voices of all those involved in the study.» (Geoff Stahl, Media International Australia 148, 2013)