Includes bibliographical references and index.

Performing lives, hidden histories. What's that smell? : queer temporalities and subcultural lives / Judith Halberstam ; Girl on girl : fat femmes, bio-queens, and redefining drag / Rachel Devitt ; Queering the witch : Stevie Nicks and the forging of femininity at the Night of a thousand Stevies / Jason Lee Oakes ; Tickle me emo : lesbian balladeering, straight-boy emo and the politics of affect / Karen Tongson ; "Anders als die Anderen," or Queering the song : construction and representation of homosexuality in German cabaret song recordings before 1933 / Anno Mungen -- Queering boundaries. Tears and screams : performances of pleasure and pain in the bolero / Vanessa Knights ; Hey, man, you're my girlfriend! : poetic genderfuck and Queer Hebrew in Eran Zur's performance of Yona Wallach's lyrics / Gilad Padva ; Albita Rodríguez : sexuality, imaging, and gender construction in the music of exile / Mario Rey ; Su casa es mi casa : Latin House, sexuality, place / Stephen Amico -- Too close for comfort. Too much, Tatu young : queering politics in the world of Tatu / Sarah Kerton ; "I am not in a box of any description" : Sinéad O'Connor's queer outing / Emma Mayhew ; Gender crossings : a neglected history in African American music / Jeffrey Callen ; Queer(ing) masculinities in heterosexist rap music / Freya Jarman-Ivens ; Closeness and distance : songs about AIDS / Paul Attinello -- Glamorous excess. Endless caresses : queer exuberance in large-scale form in rock / Jennifer Rycenga ; Popular music and the dynamics of desire / Sheila Whiteley ; Trans glam : gender magic in the film musical / Lloyd Whitesell ; On male queering in mainstream pop / Stan Hawkins.