Locating Transness in Experience of Popular Music: A Queer Phenomenological Approach

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Trans experience has historically been fetishised and othered in musicology through casestudies preoccupied with Art Music and biological gender; however, research has sincereflected that transness in popular music permeates musical components, lyrics, visualperformance aesthetics, and performer identity. In a new approach towards understandingtrans experience of popular music, I, a non-binary person, intend to identify and examinehow popular music locates transness through a queered phenomenological lens. I will dothis through detailed analysis of pieces of music under the hip-hop and dance musicumbrella, and the experience of it, in specific spaces; drag shows, ballroom events, andfashion shows.