Queer episodes in music and modern identity / edited by Sophie Fuller and Lloyd Whitesell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fuller, Sophie.

Whitesell, Lloyd.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality and music.

Gay musicians.

Music--19th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

viii, 324 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2002]

Contents:

Private performance. "Desire is consuming me" : the life partnership between Eugenie Schumann and Marie Fillunger / Eva Rieger. Ravel's way / Lloyd Whitesell. "Devoted attention" : looking for lesbian musicians in fin-de-siècle Britain / Sophie Fuller

Public appearances. "He isn't a marrying man" : gender and sexuality in the repertoire of male impersonators, 1870-1930 / Gillian Rodger. Tchaikovsky and his music in Anglo-American criticism, 1890s-1950s / Malcolm Hamrick Brown. Transcription, transgression, and the (pro)creative urge / Ivan Raykoff. Musicology and sexuality : the example of Edward J. Dent / Philip Brett

Double meanings. Cross-dressing in Saint-Saëns's Le rouet d'Omphale : ambiguities of gender and politics / Jann Pasler. The "dark saying" of the Enigma : homoeroticism and the Elgarian paradox / Byron Adams. "An anthology of friendship" : the letters from John Ireland to Father Kenneth Thompson / Fiona Richards

Queer listening. Tristan's wounds : on homosexual Wagnerians at the fin-de-siècle / Mitchell Morris. When subjects don't come out / Sherrie Tucker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

025202740X

OCLC:

47973275