Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Brett, Philip.
2. Wood, Elizabeth, 1939-
3. Thomas, Gary, 1944-

Description

1. ix, 357 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

1. Homosexuality and music
2. Gay musicians
3. Sex in music

Contents

1. Queering the pitch : a posy of definitions and impersonations / Wayne Koestenbaum -- Musicality, essentialism, and the closet -- Eros and orientalism in Britten's operas / Philip Brett -- Sapphonics / Elizabeth Wood --On a lesbian relation with music : a serious effort not to think straight / Suzanne G. Cusick -- A conversation with Ned Rorem / Lawrence D. Mass -- Henry Lawes's setting of Katherine Phlilips'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 -- Queer thoughts on country music and k.d. lang / Martha Mockus -- 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.

Call number

1. JME 94-314

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, 1994.

Added author

1. Brett, Philip.
2. Wood, Elizabeth, 1939-
3. Thomas, Gary, 1944-

LCCN

1. 93015025 /MN

ISBN

1. 0415907527
2. 0415907535 (pbk.)

Research call number

1. JME 94-314