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

Queering the Pitch

The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology
Herausgeber: Brett, Philip; Thomas, Gary C; Wood, Elizabeth

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 161mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780415978835
• ISBN-10: 0415978831
• Artikelnr.: 22427962

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