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Informationen zum Autor Liz Wood has taught Gay and Lesbian Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and as a adjunct at other colleges and universities. Gary C. Thomas is Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. Klappentext First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung Contains an essay on Gay Musicology, its history and scope. Along with this historical essay, this work includes an introduction that outlines the changes that have occurred as Gay Musicology has grown. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Queering the Pitch: A Posy of Definitions and Impersonations Part 1: Canons and Arias 2. Musicality, Essentialism, and the Closet 3. Sapphonics 4. On a Lesbian Relation with Music: A Serious Effort Not to Think Straight 5. A Conversation with Ned Rorem Part 2: Chronicles 6. Henry Lawes's Setting of Katherine Philips's Friendship Poetry in His Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues, 1655: A Musical Misreading? 7. Unveiled Voices: Sexual Difference and the Castrato Joke Dame 8. "Was George Frideric Handel Gay?": On Closet Questions and Cultural Politics 9. Constructions of Subjectivity in Schubert's Music 10: Eros and Orientalism in Britten's Operas 11. Queer Thoughts on Country Music and k.d. lang Part 3: Consorts 12. Lesbian Compositional Process: One Lover-Composer's Perspective 13. Growing up Female(s): Retrospective Thoughts on Musical Preferences and Meanings 14. Authority and Freedom: Toward a Sociology of the Gay Choruses Part 4: Coda Preface 15. Lesbian and Gay Music
