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The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman

The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman

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Availability:In StockContributor:Niko StratisSeries:American MusicPublish date:2025-05-06Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Texas PressISBN-13:9781477331484ISBN-10:1477331484UPC:9781477331484Book Category:Music, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Essays, Genres & Styles, Gender StudiesBook Topic:RockSize:8.60 x 5.70 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCJ0FMZVF0

The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman

A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us.

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...

Series: American Music
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Texas PressISBN-13:9781477331484ISBN-10:1477331484UPC:9781477331484Book Category:Music, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Essays, Genres & Styles, Gender StudiesBook Topic:RockSize:8.60 x 5.70 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCJ0FMZVF0

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.


Publisher: University of Texas Press

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