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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Access E-Book
Access Note:	Access to electronic resources restricted to Simmons University students, faculty and staff.
Main Author:	Hubbs, Nadine
Corporate Author:	American Council of Learned Societies
Format:	Kit
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.
Series:	ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subjects:	Music > United States > 20th century > History and criticism. National music > United States > History and criticism. Gay composers > United States.

Table of Contents:

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).