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Now available from Ashgate Publishing…Queer Tracks: Subversive Strategies in Rock and Pop Music, Doris Leibetseder, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt (Austria)Queer Tracks describes motifs in popular music that deviate from heterosexual orientation, the binary gender system and fixed identities. This cutting-edge work deals with the key concepts of current gender politics and queer theory in rock and pop music, including irony, parody, camp, mask/masquerade, mimesis/mimicry, cyborg, transsexuality, and dildo. Queer Tracks is a revised translation of Queere Tracks. Subversive Strategien in Rock- und Popmusik, originally published in German.Contents: Introduction: historical prelude; Irony – the cutting edge; Parody – gender trouble; Camp – queer revolt in style; Mask/masquerade – transforming the gaze; Mimesis/mimicry – poetic aesthetic; Cyborg – transhuman; Trans* – border wars?; Dildo –gender blender; Fade out: looking forward; Bibliography; Index.Sample pages are available to view online at: www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409437024Dr.in Mag.a Doris Leibetseder Zentrum für Frauen- und Geschlechterstudien Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt Sterneckstrasse 15 9020 Klagenfurt/Celovec Österreich/Austria  Tel: +43/463/2700-1021 E-mail: doris.leibetseder@aau.at Homepage: http://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/dleibets/wordpress/NEUERSCHEINUNGDoris Leibetseder: Queer Tracks. Subversive Strategies in Rock and Pop Music. Ashgate (December) 2012  ISBN 978-1-4094-3702-4  eISBN 978-1-4094-3703-1 http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&#38;calcTitle=1&#38;title_id=11328&#38;edition_id=11678Doris Leibetseder: Queere Tracks. Subversive Strategien in der Rock- und Popmusik. Verlag: Transcript; EUR 29,80 ISBN: 978-3-8376-1193-9 http://www.transcript-verlag.de/ts1193/ts1193.php