What Will I Be: American Music and Cold War Identity

Contents

• 1. Introduction:
• Music and Identity: A Post-War Genealogy
• 2. Singing Smoothly:
• Masculinity in Early Doo-Wop
• 3. The Blonde Who Knew Too Much:
• The Whiteness of Doris Day
• 4. This Promise of Paradise:
• Identity and Performance in the Pacific Theater
• 5. Making Sense of Silence:
• John Cage's Queer Avant-Garde
• 6. Epilogue
• The Practice of Identity