LGBTQIA+ and Queer Music Literature: Articles
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Music and Queer Identity
- Equity in Music Education: Incorporating Queer Theory into Culturally Responsive Teaching by From Music educators journal, 2023-12, Vol.110 (2), p.59-63, "... culture(s) and to the culture(s) of their classmates and the school and local communities. 2 Echoing the work of researchers during the preceding decade, education..."Publication Date: 2023-12-01
- Companion-able Species: A Queer Pedagogy for Music Education by What might the "coming out" of LGBTQ studies in music education mean for the profession? How might we interact with each other, enacting a pedagogy based not on a discourse of inclusion situated in terms of identities that necessitate exclusion, but one holding each other in regard, meeting face to face, as companion-able species? What makes lives mundane in affect yet consequential in effect is integral to a queer pedagogy that would seek to create (music-al) lives worth living. As a "category-in-question," Donna Haraway’s (2008) concept of "companion species" acknowledges difference in the context of conjoined processes of bodily worldly entanglements. I add the suffix -able to underscore underlying affection and active participation requisite for the relationality in which we all take part. We are messmates at table, the terms of which do not exist a priori, but which we co-create--a table at which all are guests and no one is host. Rather than "including" queer perspectives in straight music education, a queer pedagogy of companion-able species opens spaces for co-creating a contingent, dynamic table where music education messmates might commit to practices of regard and response in ways that compel us to learn from and with each other in the context of humility, doubt, and respect, using felt, as opposed to sufficient, reason.Publication Date: 2013-07
- Black and Queer, Music on Screen: Distanced Derivations by While Black Studies and Queer Studies have offered a range of terms and methods for considering sound, music, and musicality in audiovisual work over the last half century, studies of sound and music in audiovisual media that have attempted to define these latter disciplines have tended to neglect or simply ignore those innovations. The result is a lack of attention and analysis given to key forces and voices at important moments of media transition. This editor's introduction surveys relevant methods and exemplars to demonstrate this problem of disciplinary blind spots and suggests ways that contributions to this special issue help to address and reorient it.Publication Date: 2023-04
- Queer Music in the Queen's Hall: Teleny and Decadent Musical Geographies at the Fin de Siecle by This article examines the significance of music and musical performance in Teleny, or the Reverse of the Medal (1893), an anonymous pornographic novel attributed by some scholars to Oscar Wilde. It draws upon historical material on late-Victorian concert venues, queer literary subcultures and sexology to illuminate the representation of musical spaces in the text. Teleny exists in two different versions: an English text, which is set in Paris, and a French text, which is set in London. The opening section of the article suggests that Teleny’s dynamic engagement with cosmopolitan cultural exchange between Paris and London is brought into sharper focus by situating the musical performances in the novel in the precise built environment of London’s Queen Hall. The second section explores the novel’s concern with queer geographies (the Orient, Eastern Europe) in the context of other texts that address music and homosexual identity in the period. The third section examines the significance of space in the novel’s presentation of musical listening, arguing that its focus on the materiality of sound and the haptic transmission of desire responds to sexological conceptions of embodied musical response by homosexual subjects. The significance of this sensory experience of listening is understood in the light of Sara Ahmed’s theorization of ‘queer phenomenology’. Finally, the article traces the significance of musical allusions to songs by Franz Schubert to show how they form part of the novel’s broader concerns with the spatial articulation of same-sex desire and the representation of queer urban geographies.Publication Date: 2020
- “We Provide a Place to Not Be Okay”: Emotional Labor in Performance and Queer Amateur Music Spaces by Lambe examines emotional labor in performance and queer amateur music spaces. A queer open mic in Oakland CA was held in September 2017. The event featured queer Black perfomer Sanna. The audience of twenty-five LGBTQ folks, women, and people of color clap hands, stomp feet, whistle, and yell. "Not okay" recurs frequently in this open mic. The speaker eschews the expectation that they would function well. This expectation speaks to values of Oakland where being "okay" seems to signify a successful affect. Tech companies gentrifying Oakland infuse the city with neo-liberal affect. Neoliberal affect includes individual exceptionalism and satisfied productivity.Publication Date: 2021-03