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The queer composition of America's sound : gay modernists, American music, and national identity / Nadine Hubbs.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hubbs, Nadine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--United States--20th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- National music--United States--History and criticism.
- National music.
- Gay composers--United States.
- Gay composers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (295 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this vibrant and pioneering book, Nadine Hubbs shows how a gifted group of Manhattan-based gay composers were pivotal in creating a distinctive "American sound" and in the process served as architects of modern American identity. Focusing on a talented circle that included Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Paul Bowles, David Diamond, and Ned Rorem, The Queer Composition of America's Sound homes in on the role of these artists' self-identification-especially with tonal music, French culture, and homosexuality-in the creation of a musical idiom that even today signifies "America" in commercials, movies, radio and television, and the concert hall.
- 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).
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-263), discography (p. 265), and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786612763069
- 9780520937956
- 0520937953
- 9781282763067
- 1282763067
- 9781597348423
- 1597348422
- OCLC:
- 475926909
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