Queering the pitch : the new gay and lesbian musicology /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Brett, Philip (Editor), Wood, Elizabeth, 1939- (Editor), Thomas, Gary C., 1944- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 1994.
Subjects:	Homosexuality and music. Sex in music. Gay musicians. Gender identity in music. Sexuality in music. Homosexualité et musique. Sexualité dans la musique. Musiciens homosexuels. Identité sexuelle dans la musique. Musiciennes lesbiennes. Geschlechtsidentität. Homosexualität. Musik. Muziekpsychologie. Muzieksociologie. Vrouwen. Geschichte Homosexuality > Related to > Music Aufsatzsammlung.

Table of Contents:

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 Phillips'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.