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9780520241855

The Queer Composition of America's Sound

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520241855

  • ISBN10:

    0520241851

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-09-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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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 Soundhomes 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
INTRODUCTION. Composing Oneself 1(18)
1. Modernist Abstraction and the Abstract Art: Four Saints and the Queer Composition of America's Sound 19(45)
2. Being Musical: Gender, Sexuality, and Musical Identity in Twentieth-Century America 64(39)
INTERMEZZO. My Dear Freddy: Identity Excesses and Evasions
chez Paul Bowles
103(14)
3. A French Connection: Modernist Codes in the Musical Closet 117(35)
4. Queerness, Eruption, Bursting: U.S. Musical Modernism at Midcentury 152(23)
CODA. Composing Oneself (Reprise) 175(4)
Notes 179(70)
Works Cited 249(16)
Discography 265(2)
Index 267

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