The Queer Composition of America’s Sound : Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity.
Başlık:
The Queer Composition of America’s Sound : Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity.
Yazar:
Hubbs, Nadine.
ISBN:
9780520937956
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Basım Bilgisi:
1st ed.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (295 pages)
İçerik:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Composing Oneself -- 1. Modernist Abstraction and the Abstract Art: Four Saints and the Queer Composition of America's Sound -- 2. Being Musical: Gender, Sexuality, and Musical Identity in Twentieth-Century America -- INTERMEZZO. My Dear Freddy: Identity Excesses and Evasions chez Paul Bowles -- 3. A French Connection: Modernist Codes in the Musical Closet -- 4. Queerness, Eruption, Bursting: U.S. Musical Modernism at Midcentury -- CODA. Composing Oneself (Reprise) -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Discography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Özet:
In this vibrant and pioneering book, Nadine Hubbs shows how a gifted group of Manhattan-based gay composers were pivotal in creating a distinctive "American sound" and in the process served as architects of modern American identity. Focusing on a talented circle that included Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Paul Bowles, David Diamond, and Ned Rorem, The Queer Composition of America's Sound homes in on the role of these artists' self-identification-especially with tonal music, French culture, and homosexuality-in the creation of a musical idiom that even today signifies "America" in commercials, movies, radio and television, and the concert hall.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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