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| Title Statement | The dad rock that made me a woman / Niko Stratis. |
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| Series | American music series |
| Author | Stratis, Niko |
| Publication | Austin, TX: University of Texas Press,2025. |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Extent of Item | x, 249 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9781477331484 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07900939 |
| Contents | 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 had forgotten my name --Take my hand and help me not to shake --Play with matches if you think you'd like 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. |
| Summary | "In 2007, Pitchfork writer Rob Mitchum described the indie rock band Wilco's new work as "an album of unapologetic straightforwardness. Sky Blue Sky nakedly exposes the dad-rock gene Wilco has always carried but courageously attempted to disguise." The "dad rock" descriptor hit a nerve, as indie peers like The National, Spoon, and the Mountain Goats, as well as generational forebears like Bruce Springsteen, were soon slapped with the same label. Meanwhile, Niko Stratis was 25 years old, a closeted trans woman who cut glass for a living in the Yukon Territory, and her stereotypically masculine environment was so threatening and miserable she contemplated faking her own death. Things would get even worse for Stratis, but she continually found solace and self in dad rock, this "radio friendly rock music with a deep emotional core." She connected with Michael Stipe lyrics alluding to his queer longings, John Darnielle's unabashed nerd-dom, and Springsteen's "very trans" desire to "change my clothes my hair my face." She found some of the same ideas in the work of Sheryl Crow, Neko Case, and Sharon Van Etten -- "women who make the same emotionally open and honest music." In this book, she unpacks a label that seems frivolous on the surface in order to reveal "a more complex and varied genre that defies gender in subtle and beautiful ways." A genre that, by her own admission, saved her life"-- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Rock music fans--Biography |
| Transgender women--Biography | |
| Rock music--History and criticism | |
| By Name | Stratis, Niko |
| By Genre | Biographies |
| Autobiographies | |
| Personal narratives | |
