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Nadine HubbsPublication Details
BookUniversity of California Press2004Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) ML200.5 .H83 2004 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Description
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. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- Introduction : composing oneself
- 1. Modernist abstraction and the abstract art : Four saints and the queer composition of America’s sound
- 2. Being musical : gender, sexuality, and musical identity in twentieth- century America
- Intermezzo : my dear Freddy : identity excesses and evasions chez Paul Bowles
- 3. A French connection : modernist codes in the musical closet
- 4. Queerness, eruption, bursting : U.S. musical modernism at midcentury
- Coda : Composing oneself (reprise)
ISBN
- 0520241851
- 0520241843
- 9780520241855
- 9780520241848
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