Queer episodes in music and modern identity
By: edited by Sophie Fuller and Lloyd Whitesell.
Contributors: Fuller, Sophie.; Whitesell, Lloyd.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Homosexuality and music; Gay musicians; Music -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Description: "Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity approaches modern sexuality by way of music.

Through the hidden or lost Stories of composers, scholars, patrons, performers, audiences, repertoire, venues, and specific works, this volume explores points of intersection between music and queerness in Europe and the United States from 1870 to 1950 - a period during which dramatic changes in musical expression and in the expression of individual sexual identity played similar roles in washing away the certainties of the past."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: Queer listening. Tristan's wounds : on homosexual Wagnerians at the fin-de-siècle / Mitchell Morris; title: When subjects don't come out / Sherrie Tucker.