The Queer Composition of America's Sound: Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity
"What does music have to do with homosexuality, or homosexuality with music? That is the question Hubbs explores through a breathtakingly original history of the mid-twentieth-century gay American composers who produced 'America's sound.' Hubbs shows how sexual desire, aesthetic practice, and social identity shape one another and define specific forms of human consciousness. Her recovery of the homosexual roots of American musical modernism is ultimately a study in the sexuality of culture itself." - David M. Halperin, author of Saint Foucault; "Compellingly argued and beautifully written, The Queer Composition of America's Sound will no doubt raise controversy, but it will be required reading for musicologists, Americanists, and queer theorists." - Susan McClary, author of Conventional Wisdom"