About this title: Is music the patriarchy's most powerful weapon in constructing and controlling sexual roles? If you scratch an opera queen, will you find a lesbian? Queering the Pitch will provoke many to question what it is that makes music pleasurable, and how it is shaped by notions of sexuality and sexual identity. The first collection of gay and lesbian work in music and musicology, this book contains a wealth of diverse approaches which signal an exciting and controversial advance in the field. Musicologists, scholars academics, critics, performers and composers examine the areas of musical ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 2006-08-15
ISBN-13:9780415978842ISBN:041597884X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis(Routledge)
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780415978842ISBN:041597884X
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. Contents preface to the second edition preface to the first edition 1 queering the pitch: a posy of definitions and impersonations wayne koestenbaum part one * canons and arias 2 musicality, essentialism, and the closet philip brett 3 sapphonics elizabeth wood 4 on a lesbian relation with music: a serious effort not to think straight suzanne cusick 5 a conversation with ned rorem lawrence d. mass part two * chronicles 6 henry lawes's setting of katherine philips's ... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis(Routledge)
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780415978835ISBN:0415978831
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. Contents preface to the second edition preface to the first edition 1 queering the pitch: a posy of definitions and impersonations wayne koestenbaum part one * canons and arias 2 musicality, essentialism, and the closet philip brett 3 sapphonics elizabeth wood 4 on a lesbian relation with music: a serious effort not to think straight suzanne cusick 5 a conversation with ned rorem lawrence d. mass part two * chronicles 6 henry lawes's setting of katherine philips's ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 1994-01-27
ISBN-13:9780415907538ISBN:0415907535
Description: Very Good Text. Very good-paperback copy. Shelfwear, bumping to head of spine, very light sunning to spine. Spine is uncreased, binding and text also in very good condition. read more
Edition: 2nd edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE CHAPMAN HALL
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780415978842ISBN:041597884X
Description: When the first edition of "Queering the Pitch" was published in early 1994, it was immediately hailed as a landmark and defining work in the new field of Gay Musicology. The first collection of its kind, its contributors covered a wide range of subje... read more
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