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The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness looks at music and queer experience across a range of venues and approaches, from gospel to electronic dance music; from Hong Kong public music to Ukranian pop.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Fred Everett Maus
- Whose Refuge, This House?: The Estrangement of Queers of Color in Electronic Dance Music
- Luis-Manuel Garcia
- The Queer Pleasures of Musicals
- Bradley Rogers
- The Gospel According to the Gays: Queering the Roots of Gospel Music
- E. Patrick Johnson
- Queer as Trad: LGBTQ Performers and Irish Traditional Music in the United States
- Tes Slominski
- Gay Country, TransAmericana, and Queer Sincerity
- Shana Goldin-Perschbacher
- Queer Hip Hop: A Brief Historiography
- Shanté Paradigm Smalls
- From Queer Musicology to Indecent Theology: Liberal and Liberationist Protestant Theology and Musical Queerings of the Bible
- Dirk von der Horst
- Operatic Adaptations and the Representation of Non-normative Sexualities
- Freya Jarman
- Queer Audiovisual Creativity: Fan-Created Music Videos from Star Trek to Bad Girls
- Nina Treadwell
- Karaoke, Queer Theory, Queer Performance: Dedicated to José Esteban Muñoz
- Karen Tongson
- Free as a Bird? Thinking with the Grain of Meshell Ndegeocello's Butch Voice
- Tavia Nyong'o
- Transgender Passing Guides and the Vocal Performance of Gender and Sexuality
- Stephan Pennington
- Sound Desires: Auralism, the Sexual Fetishization of Music
- Jodie Taylor
- Transcripts: Toward A Queer Phenomenology of the Field Recording
- Drew Daniel
- Queering Brighton
- Sheila Whiteley
- (To) Queer: "A" Life to Music
- Elizabeth Gould
- Endangered Tenderness: Schubert, Chopin, and Schumann
- Charles Fisk
- Musical Awakenings: The Experiences of a Queer Music Therapist in the Face of HIV and AIDS
- Colin Andrew Lee
- Toward a Trans* Method in Musicology
- Dana Baitz
- Quare Times: An Introduction to a Queer Perspective on Afrofuturism and a Reading of Sun Ra's Space Is the Place
- Tim Stüttgen
- Musical Abjects: Sounds and Objectionable Sexualities
- Jenny Olivia Johnson
- Music in the Margins: Queerness in the Clerical Imagination, 1200-1500
- Lisa Colton
- The Queer History of the Castrato
- Emily Wilbourne
- Queering Middle Class Gender in Nineteenth-Century US Theater
- Gillian Rodger
- Anglophone Songs about HIV/AIDS
- Matthew J. Jones
- Queer Patriotism in the Eurovision Song Contest
- Ivan Raykoff
- Interdisciplinary Enqueeries from India: Moving Toward a Queer Ethnomusicology
- Zoe Sherinian
- Kunqu Cross-dressing as Artistic and/or Queer Performance
- Joseph S. C. Lam
- Non-ordinary Gender and Sexuality in Indonesian Performance
- Henry Spiller
- Out in the Undercurrents: Queer Politics in Hong Kong Popular Music
- Yiu Fai Chow and Jeroen De Kloet
- How to Do Things with Theory: Cultural "Transcription," "Queerness," and Ukrainian Pop
- Stephen Amico
About the author
Fred Everett Maus is Director of Undergraduate Programs for Music and Associate Professor at the University of Virginia. He was a founding member of the editorial board of the journal Women and Music.
Sheila Whiteley was Professsor Emeritus of Music at the University of Salford. She wrote, edited, or co-edited several books, including Women and Popular Music: Popular Music and Gender , Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender, and Queering the Popular Pitch.
Tavia Nyong'o is Chair and Professor of Theater & Performance Studies, Professor of American Studies, and Professor of African-American Studies at Yale University. He is author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory and Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life.
Zoe Sherinian is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Division Chair at the University of Oklahoma. She is author of Tamil Folk Music as Dalit Liberation Theology.
Summary
Music and queerness interact in many different ways. The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness brings together many topics and scholarly disciplines, reflecting the diversity of current research and methodology. Each of the book's six sections exemplifies a particular rhetoric of queer music studies. The section "Kinds of Music" explores queer interactions with specific musics such as EDM, hip hop, and country. "Versions" explores queer meanings that emerge in the creation of a version of a pre-existing text, for instance in musical settings of Biblical texts or practices of karaoke. "Voices and Sounds" turns in various ways to the materiality of music and sound. "Lives" focuses on interactions of people's lives with music and queerness. "Histories" addresses moments in the past, beginning with times when present conceptualizations of sexuality had not yet developed and moving to cases studies of more recent history, including the creation of pop songs in response to HIV/AIDS and the Eurovision song contest. The final section, "Cross-cultural Queerness," asks how to understand gender and sexuality in locations where recent Euro-American concepts may not be appropriate.
Additional text
Fred Everett Maus and Sheila Whiteley, together with the theatre and performance scholar and Afro-American studies professor Tavia Nyong'o and the ethnomusicologist Zoe Sherinian, attempt to do justice to the not exactly easy claim to do justice to the diversity of the topics offered in a handbook with a great variety of a total of 32 text contributions in six sections.
