Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION: Queering Post–World War II Masculinity through Music
CHAPTER ONE. Visibly Hidden: Postwar Disorientation, Queer Community, and Queer Ambivalence
CHAPTER TWO. A Freak Deferred: Johnnie Ray Navigates Innovation and Convention
CHAPTER THREE. Spectacular Vacillations: Little Richard Charms and Disarms America
CHAPTER FOUR. Fine and Dandy: Mapping Johnny Mathis’s Negotiations of Race, Sexuality, and Affect
CHAPTER FIVE. Building an Empire of Illusion: Liberace and the Art of Queering
CONCLUSION: Disquieting and Exciting: Queering Tools in Popular Music and Queer Becoming
Notes
References
Discography
Index
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