Sasha Geffen – Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary – Paperback Hayley Mills Year of release: 2008

Year of release: 2008

Catalogue number: ILPS 9625

1989 original

Great Expectation

released in 2019

Sasha Geffen – Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary – Paperback Hayley Mills Year of release: 2008Why has music so often served as an accomplice to transcendent expressions of gender? For Sasha Geffen, the answers lie, in part, in musics intrinsic quality of subliminal expression, which, through paradox and contradiction, allows rigid gender roles to fall away in a sensual and ambiguous exchange between performer and listener. Glitter Up the Dark traces the history of this gender fluidity in pop music from the early twentieth century to the