Queering Kansas City Jazz: Gender, Performance, and the History of a Scene Contributor(s): Clifford-Napoleone, Amber R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803262914 ISBN-13: 9780803262911 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Jazz - Social Science | Lgbt Studies - General - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi |
Dewey: 781.650 |
LCCN: 2017056171 |
Series: Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.10 lbs) 234 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Midwest |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Jazz Age, a phenomenon that shaped American leisure culture in the early twentieth century, coincided with the growth of Kansas City, Missouri, from frontier town to metropolitan city. Though Kansas City's music, culture, and stars are well covered, Queering Kansas City Jazz supplements the grand narrative of jazz history by including queer identities in the city's history while framing the jazz-scene experience in terms of identity and space. Cabarets, gender impressionism clubs, and sites of sex tourism in Kansas City served as world-making spaces for those whose performance of identity transgressed hegemonic notions of gender, sexuality, race, and class. Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide a critical deconstruction of how the jazz scene offered a space for nonnormative gender practice and performance and acted as a site of contested identity and spatial territory. |