The queer composition of America's sound : gay modernists, American music, and national identity /

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Hubbs shows how a group of gifted Manhattan-based gay composers were pivotal in creating a distinctive 'American sound' & in the process served as architects of modern American identity. She focuses on the circle that included Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Paul Bowles & Ned Ror...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hubbs, Nadine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Music > United States > 20th century > History and criticism.
National music > United States > History and criticism.
Gay composers > United States.
Musique nationale > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Compositeurs homosexuels > États-Unis.
MUSIC > Reference.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
MUSIC > General.
Gay composers
Music
National music
United States
Humaniora > Musik.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Modernist abstraction and the abstract art : Four Saints and the queer composition of America's sound
  • Being musical : gender, sexuality, and musical identity in twentieth-century America
  • Intermezzo. My dear Freddy : identity excesses and evasions chez Paul Bowles
  • A French connection : modernist codes in the musical closet
  • Queerness, eruption, bursting : U.S. musical modernism at midcentury
  • Coda. Composing oneself (reprise).

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