University of South Florida Scholar Commons Graduate Theses and Dissertations Graduate School 2011 My Bad Romance: Exploring the Queer Sublimity of Diva Reception Blake Paxton University of South Florida,
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[email protected]. My Bad Romance: Exploring the Queer Sublimity of Diva Reception by Blake A. Paxton A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Department of Communication College of Arts and Sciences University of South Florida Major Professor: Stacy Holman Jones, Ph.D. Elizabeth Bell, Ph.D. Carolyn Ellis, Ph.D. Date of Approval: May 25, 2011 Keywords: utopian performative, autoethnography, performance ethnography, ethnomusicology, performing social resistance Copyright 2011, Blake A. Paxton DEDICATION I dedicate this thesis to my mother, the late Ann Paxton, who is my favorite diva of all. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank all of the men who shared their stories of diva fandom with me. I would also like to thank my committee members Carolyn Ellis and Elizabeth Bell for their guidance and encouraging words of support.