11.6

Rock ‘N’ Roll and Transsexuality across Borders

Readings

  • Joanne Meyerowitz, “‘Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty’,” in How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009), 51-97.
  • Uta G. Poiger, “American Music, Cold War Liberalism, and German Identities,” in Heide Fehrenbach and Uta G. Poiger eds., Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan (2000), 127-142.

  • Watch John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) [Canvas]