Julia Jules Balén

A Queerly Joyful Noise

Choral Musicking for Social Justice

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines how choral singing can be both personally transformative and politically impactful. Comparing queer choral performances to the uses of group singing within the civil rights and labor movements, Julia ""Jules"" Balén maps the relationship between different forms of oppression and strategic musical forms of resistance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 149mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9780813588384
• ISBN-10: 0813588383
• Artikelnr.: 48957288

Autorenporträt

JULIA “JULES” BALÉN, professor of English and a founding faculty member of Chicana/o Studies, Freedom & Justice Studies, and Philosophy at the California State University system’s newest campus, Channel Islands (in Camarillo), has been involved in queer choral movement for almost 30 years and has dedicated her research, writing, service, and community work to creating greater equity for all. Balén's home is in the San Francisco Bay Area.  

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: Why Choruses?
            Part I: Finding our Voices
Chapter 1: Singing as Counterstorying Practice
Chapter 2: Choral Musicking for Change
            Part II: Queer Organizing for Social Change
Chapter 3: Practices of Identity: Queering Social Institutions
Chapter 4: Queer Choral Musicking: Cultural Contexts
Chapter 5: Choral Technologies for Queering
            Part III: Communal Erotics and Social Justice
Chapter 6: Emotions, Identities, and Choral Musicking
Chapter 7: Communal Erotics: Choral Musicking and Our Capacity for Joy
Acknowledgments
Bibliography