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010 a| 2006009928;

020 a| 0415978831q| (hardback : alk. paper);

020 a| 041597884Xq| (pbk. : alk. paper);

020 a| 9780415978835;

020 a| 9780415978842;

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245 00 a| Queering the pitch :b| the new gay and lesbian musicology /c| edited by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, Gary C. Thomas.;

250 a| Second edition.;

300 a| xi, 406 pages :b| illustrations, music ;c| 23 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

520 a| The first edition of this book was published in early 1994. It was immediately hailed as a landmark and defining work, bringing new insights about gender, sexuality, and the body to the study of music, and introducing music and musicological inquiry to the exploding field of lesbian and gay studies, and queer theory. Newly revised and expanded, the second edition includes for the first time in its entirety the comprehensive and controversial essay, "Lesbian and Gay Music," written for Grove Dictionary by Philip Brett and Elizabeth Wood. This edition includes fourteen essays that are strikingly diverse in method and subject matter.;

650 0 a| Homosexuality and music.=| ^A350667;

650 0 a| Sex in music.=| ^A273460;

650 0 a| Gay musicians.=| ^A350668;

650 0 a| Gender identity in music.=| ^A402506;

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700 1 a| Wood, Elizabeth,d| 1939-e| editor.=| ^A330936;

700 1 a| Thomas, Gary C.,d| 1944-e| editor.=| ^A350669;

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Queering the pitch the new gay and lesbian musicology / edited by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, Gary C. Thomas.

Other author	Brett, Philip, editor.
Other author	Wood, Elizabeth, 1939- editor.
Other author	Thomas, Gary C., 1944- editor.
Format	Book
Edition	Second edition.
Publication Info	New York, NY : Routledge, ©2006.
Description	xi, 406 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm
Subjects	Homosexuality and music. Sex in music. Gay musicians. Gender identity in music.

Contents	Queering the pitch: a posy of definitions and impersonations / Wayne Koestenbaum -- Part one: 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 -- Part two: 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 -- Part three: 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 -- Part four: Coda. Preface to "Lesbian and gay music" / Elizabeth Wood -- Lesbian and gay music / Philip Brett and Elizabeth Wood.
Abstract	The first edition of this book was published in early 1994. It was immediately hailed as a landmark and defining work, bringing new insights about gender, sexuality, and the body to the study of music, and introducing music and musicological inquiry to the exploding field of lesbian and gay studies, and queer theory. Newly revised and expanded, the second edition includes for the first time in its entirety the comprehensive and controversial essay, "Lesbian and Gay Music," written for Grove Dictionary by Philip Brett and Elizabeth Wood. This edition includes fourteen essays that are strikingly diverse in method and subject matter.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2006009928
ISBN	0415978831 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN	041597884X (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780415978835
ISBN	9780415978842

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