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Queering Kansas City Jazz: Gender, Performance, and the History of a Scene (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality) by Clifford-Napoleone, Amber R.; is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Queering Kansas City Jazz: Gender, Performance, and the History of a Scene (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality) about?

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. Few books examine the changing ideas about gender in the turn-of-the-century Great Plains, under the false assumption that people in middle-American places experienced cultural shifts only as an aftershock of events on the coasts. This approach overlooks the region’s contest

Author

Clifford-Napoleone, Amber R.;

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780803262911

Subjects

Music, Arts