Thomas Gary / Brett Phillip / Elizabeth Wood (eds.)

Queering the Pitch

Herausgeber: Brett, Philip; Wood, Elizabeth; Thomas, Gary C

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Produktbeschreibung

Contains an essay on Gay Musicology, its history and scope. Along with this historical essay, this work includes an introduction that outlines the changes that have occurred as Gay Musicology has grown.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9780415978842
• ISBN-10: 041597884X
• Artikelnr.: 21451575

Autorenporträt

Liz Wood has taught Gay and Lesbian Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and as a adjunct at other colleges and universities. Gary C. Thomas is Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Queering the Pitch: A Posy of Definitions and Impersonations Part 1:
Canons and Arias 2. Musicality, Essentialism, and the Closet 3. Sapphonics
4. On a Lesbian Relation with Music: A Serious Effort Not to Think Straight
5. A Conversation with Ned Rorem Part 2: Chronicles 6. Henry Lawes's
Setting of Katherine Philips's Friendship Poetry in His Second Book of
Ayres and Dialogues, 1655: A Musical Misreading? 7. Unveiled Voices: Sexual
Difference and the Castrato Joke Dame 8. "Was George Frideric Handel Gay?":
On Closet Questions and Cultural Politics 9. Constructions of Subjectivity
in Schubert's Music 10: Eros and Orientalism in Britten's Operas 11. Queer
Thoughts on Country Music and k.d. lang Part 3: Consorts 12. Lesbian
Compositional Process: One Lover-Composer's Perspective 13. Growing up
Female(s): Retrospective Thoughts on Musical Preferences and Meanings 14.
Authority and Freedom: Toward a Sociology of the Gay Choruses Part 4: Coda
Preface 15. Lesbian and Gay Music