The queer composition of America's sound : gay modernists, American music, and national identity /

Hubbs shows how a group of gifted Manhattan-based gay composers were pivotal in creating a distinctive 'American sound' & in the process served as architects of modern American identity. She focuses on the circle that included Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Paul Bowles & Ned Ror...

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Autor principal: Hubbs, Nadine
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2004.
Acceso en línea:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppg9r
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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).