Queering Kansas City Jazz - Gender, Performance, and the History of a Scene

Informationen zum Autor Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone is an associate professor of anthropology and director of McClure Archives and University Museum at the University of Central Missouri. She is the author of Queerness in Heavy Metal Music: Metal Bent.     Klappentext Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone is an associate professor of anthropology and director of McClure Archives and University Museum at the University of Central Missouri.¿She is the author of Queerness in Heavy Metal Music: Metal Bent. ¿ ¿ Zusammenfassung The Jazz Age coincided with the growth of Kansas City 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Rethinking Kansas City’s Jazz Story 2. Kansas City’s Jazz Scene 3. The Myth of the Wide-Open Town 4. Sissy Nights at the Spinning Wheel 5. Crib Girls to Criminals 6. Queering Dante’s Inferno 7. Remembering KC Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Amber R Clifford-Napoleone, Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9780803262911
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-6291-1
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Expanding Frontiers: Interdisc; Expanding Frontiers: Interdisc; Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous