Queer Arrangements : Billy Strayhorn and Midcentury Jazz Collaboration /

"Queer Arrangements is a new study of Billy Strayhorn that examines his music and career at the intersection of jazz and Black queer history. The legacy of Black queer composer, arranger and pianist Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967) hovers at the edge of canonical jazz narratives. Queer Arrangements...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barg, Lisa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2023]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Strayhorn, Billy.
HISTORY / LGBTQ+
MUSIC / Ethnomusicology.
Queer theory.
African American gay men > Social conditions.
African American jazz musicians.
Arrangers (Musicians) > United States.
Composition (Music) > Collaboration.
Homosexuality and music.
Jazz > 20th century > History and criticism.
Jazz > Social aspects > History > 20th century.
Strayhorn, Billy > Criticism and interpretation.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Queer Arrangements, Queer Collaboration
  • Part I. Working Behind the Scenes : Gender, Sexuality, and Collaboration in Strayhorn's Vocal Arrangements. Arriving by "Flamingo" ; Difficult Beauty
  • Part II. Strayhorn's Queer Music. Strayhorn's Lorcian Encounter ; Black Queer Moves in the Strayhorn-Ellington Nutcracker Suite
  • Part III. Strayhorn Performing/Arranging Strayhorn. Paris, Halfway to Dawn, or Listening to the Peaceful Side
  • Epilogue. Ever Up and Onward, or Searching for Strayhorn in the Twenty-First Century.

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