The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-3148-4 (ISBN)
When Wilco’s 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was infamously criticized as “dad rock,” Niko Stratis was a twenty-five-year-old closeted trans woman working in her dad’s glass shop in the Yukon Territory. As she sought escape from her hypermasculine environment, Stratis found an unlikely lifeline amid dad rock’s emotionally open and honest music. Listening to dad rock, Stratis could access worlds beyond her own and imagine a path forward.
In taut, searing essays rendered in propulsive and unguarded prose, Stratis delves into the emotional core of bands like Wilco and The National, telling her story through the dad rock that accompanied her along the way. She found footing in Michael Stipe’s allusions to queer longing, Radiohead’s embrace of unknowability, and Bruce Springsteen’s very trans desire to “change my clothes my hair my face”-and she found in artists like Neko Case and Sharon Van Etten that the label transcends gender. A love letter to the music that saves us and a tribute to dads like Stratis’s own who embody the tenderness at the genre’s heart, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman rejoices in music unafraid to bare its soul.
Niko Stratis is an award-winning writer from Toronto by way of the Yukon, where she spent years working as a journeyman glazier before coming out as trans in her thirties and being forced to abandon her previous line of work. Her writing has appeared in publications like Catapult, Spin, Paste and more. She’s a Cancer, and a former smoker.
Far away from dry land, and its bitter memories
Bitter melodies, turning your orbit around
The whole world will be listening now
Got to be something better than in the middle
Why the hell are you so sad?
If I could be who you wanted, all the time
See you in heaven if you make the list
He might be a father but he sure ain’t a dad
Last night I dreamt I’d forgotten my name
Take my hand and help me not to shake
Play with matches if you think you need to play with matches
I can’t think of floorboards anymore
I’m ready for both of us now
Want to change my clothes, my hair, my face
Pick up the pieces and go home
It’s the mercy I can’t take
We’re all supposed to try
I wanna see it when you find out what comets, stars, and moons are all about
I never thought about love when I thought about home
If the dead just go on living, well there’s nothing left to fear
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.05.2025 |
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| Reihe/Serie | American Music Series |
| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton | |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4773-3148-4 / 1477331484 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4773-3148-4 / 9781477331484 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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