Queering the pitch : the new gay and lesbian musicology

Title
  1. Queering the pitch : the new gay and lesbian musicology / edited by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, Gary C. Thomas.
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  1. New York : Routledge, c2006.
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Additional authors
  1. Brett, Philip.
  2. Wood, Elizabeth, 1939-
  3. Thomas, Gary, 1944-
Description
  1. xi, 406 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  1. Homosexuality and music
  2. Gay musicians
  3. Sex in music
  4. Gender identity in music
Contents
  1. Queering the pitch : a posy of definitions and impersonations / Wayne Koestenbaum -- Canons and arias. Musicality, essentialism, and the closet / Philip Brett ; Sapphonics / Elizabeth Wood ; On a lesbian relationship with music : a serious effort not to think straight / Suzanne G. Cusick ; A conversation with Ned Rorem / Lawrence D. Mass -- Chronicles. Henry Lawes's setting of Katherine Philips's friendship poetry in his Second book of ayres and dialogues, 1655 : a musical misreading? / Lydia Hamessley ; Unveiled voices : sexual difference and the castrato / Joke Dame ; "Was George Frideric Handel Gay?" : on closet questions and cultural politics / Gary C. Thomas ; Constructions of subjectivity in Schubert's music / Susan McClary ; Eros and orientalism in Britten's operas / Philip Brett ; Queer thoughts on country music and k.d. lang / Martha Mockus -- Consorts. Lesbian compositional process : one lover-composer's perspective / Jennifer Rycenga ; Growing up female(s) : retrospective thoughts on musical preferences and meanings / Karen Pegley and Virginia Caputo ; Authority and freedom : toward a sociology of the gay choruses / Paul Attinello -- Coda. Preface to "Lesbian and gay music" / Elizabeth Wood ; Lesbian and gay music / Philip Brett and Elizabeth Wood.
Call number
  1. JME 06-1077
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-389) and index.
Title
  1. Queering the pitch : the new gay and lesbian musicology / edited by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, Gary C. Thomas.
Imprint
  1. New York : Routledge, c2006.
Edition
  1. 2nd ed.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-389) and index.
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  1. Table of contents only
  2. Publisher description
Added author
  1. Brett, Philip.
  2. Wood, Elizabeth, 1939-
  3. Thomas, Gary, 1944-
LCCN
  1. 2006009928
ISBN
  1. 0415978831 (hardback : alk. paper)
  2. 041597884X (pbk. : alk. paper)
  3. 9780415978835
  4. 9780415978842
Research call number
  1. JME 06-1077
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