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

Other author Brett, Philip.
Other author Wood, Elizabeth, 1939-
Other author Thomas, Gary C., 1944-
Format Electronic
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge,
Descriptionxi, 406 p. : ill., music ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2006009928
ISBN0415978831 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN041597884X (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780415978835
ISBN9780415978842