Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity
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- ISBN 9780252075780
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Aug 2008
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Exploring the relationship between queer sexuality and music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity approaches modern sexuality by way of music. Through the hidden or lost stories of composers, scholars, patrons, performers, audiences, repertoires, venues, and specific works, this intriguing volume explores points of intersection between music and queerness in Europe and the United States in the years 1870 to 1950--a period when dramatic changes in musical expression and in the expression of individual sexual identity played similar roles in washing away the certainties of the past. Pursuing the shadowy, obscured tracks of queerness, contributors unravel connections among dissident identities and concrete aspects of musical style, gestures, and personae.
Contributors are Byron Adams, Philip Brett, Malcolm Hamrick Brown, Sophie Fuller, Mitchell Morris, Jann Pasler, Ivan Raykoff, Fiona Richards, Eva Rieger, Gillian Rodger, Sherrie Tucker, and Lloyd Whitesell.
Sophie Fuller teaches at Trinity College of Music in London, England, and is the author of The Pandora Guide to Women Composers: Britain and the U.S., 1629-Present.
Lloyd Whitesell, an associate professor of music at McGill University, is the author of The Music of Joni Mitchell.
