LGBTQIA+ and Queer Music Literature: Physical Resources
Physical resources in this guide are located in Lockwood Memorial Library in the music collection on the 5th floor. Please refer to the call number listed under the title of each item for their locations. If you are having trouble finding your item, please ask music librarian Deborah Chiarella or another member of our library team for assistance.
Musicology and Music History
Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity by
Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity approaches modern sexuality by way of music. Through the hidden or lost stories of composers, scholars, patrons, performers, audiences, repertoires, venues, and specific works, this intriguing volume explores points of intersection between music and queerness in Europe and the United States in the years 1870 to 1950--a period when dramatic changes in musical expression and in the expression of individual sexual identity played similar roles in washing away the certainties of the past. Pursuing the shadowy, obscured tracks of queerness, contributors unravel connections among dissident identities and concrete aspects of musical style, gestures, and personae. On one end of the spectrum are intense, private connections and tantalizing details of musical expression: romantic correspondence between Eugenie Schumann (a daughter of Clara and Robert) and the singer Marie Fillunger; John Ireland's confessional letters to a close friend of an illicit passion for young choristers; closet formations in the music of composers such as Maurice Ravel, Edward Elgar, and Camille Saint-Sens. their repercussions: the craze for male impersonators in American vaudeville between 1870 and 1930; the politics of appropriation implicit in showy transcriptions by pianists such as Liberace; the increasingly homophobic reception accorded Tchaikovsky's music in the early twentieth century. The authors also explore how traces of queerness can mark communities, such as groups of German men who fashioned homosexual identities by way of the cult of Wagner or women musicians who were assigned suspect or deviant status by virtue of being jazz instrumentalists. Throughout these discussions, music provides the accompaniment for confrontations between disparate conventions of social propriety and diverse forms of sexual identity. These provocative essays open the consideration of music and sexuality to an exciting new sense of inbetweenness, passage, and diversion.
Call Number: ML63 .Q44 2002ISBN: 9780252027406Publication Date: 2002-05-23
Queering the Field: Sounding Out Ethnomusicology by
Drawing on ethnographic research and often deeply personal experiences with musical cultures, Queering the Field: Sounding out Ethnomusicology unpacks a history of sentiment that veils the treatment of queer music and identity within the field of ethnomusicology. The thematic structure of the volume reflects a deliberate cartography of queer spaces in the discipline-spaces that are strongly present due to their absence, are marked by direct sonic parameters, or are called into question by virtue of their otherness. As the first large-scale study of ethnomusicology's queer silences and queer identity politics, Queering the Field directly addresses the normativities currently at play in musical ethnography (fieldwork, analysis, performance, transcription) as well as in the practice of musical ethnographers (identification, participation, disclosure, observation, authority). While rooted in strong narrative convictions, the authors frequently adopt radicalized voices with the goal of queering a hierarchical sexual binary. The essays in the volume present rhetorical and syntactical scenarios that challenge us to read in prescient singular ways for future queer writing and queer thought in ethnomusicology.
Call Number: ML3798 .Q43 2020ISBN: 9780190458027Publication Date: 2019-10-21
Queer Noises by
Contents: Pet Shop Boys, naturally -- Burying Benjamin Britten -- A minute's noise for John Cage -- Mannish-acting women, woman-acting men -- And his mother called him Bill -- Miles in the sky -- Two live ones: Gary and Graham -- Exhuming Elvis -- Girls together outrageously -- Walk like a woman, talk like a man -- Dire Straights: Ziggy, Iggy, Marc, Lou -- The winter of '79 revisited -- Oh, Patti -- Nightclubbing -- Sisters doing it for themselves -- Like Boy George never happened -- Queer noises -- Is Madonna queer?
Call Number: ML63 .G49 1995ISBN: 0816627185Publication Date: 1995-03-01
Listening to the Sirens: Musical Technologies of Queer Identity From Homer to Hedwig by
In this fresh and innovative study, Judith A. Peraino investigates how music has been used throughout history to call into question norms of gender and sexuality. Beginning with a close examination of the mythology surrounding the sirens-whose music seduced Ulysses into a state of mind in which he would gladly sacrifice everything for the illicit pleasures promised in their song-Peraino goes on to consider the musical creatures, musical gods and demigods, musical humans, and music-addled listeners who have been associated with behavior that breaches social conventions. She deftly employs a sophisticated reading of Foucault as an organizational principle as well as a philosophical focus to survey seductive and transgressive queerness in music from the Greeks through the Middle Ages and to the contemporary period. Listening to the Sirens analyzes the musical ways in which queer individuals express and discipline their desire, represent themselves, build communities, and subvert heterosexual expectations. It covers a wide range of music including medieval songs, works by Handel, Tchaikovsky and Britten, women's music and disco, performers such as Judy Garland, Melissa Etheridge, Madonna, and Marilyn Manson, and the movies The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Call Number: ML3838 .P365 2006ISBN: 0520215877Publication Date: 2005-10-30
Gender, Sexuality, and Early Music by
"This collection of essays addresses questions of gender and sexuality as they relate to music from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. These essays present a body of scholarship that considers music as part of the history of sexuality, stimulating conversation within the discipline of musicology as well as bringing music studies into a broader dialogue with feminist, gender, and queer theory." -- Back cover.
Call Number: ML3838 .G373 2002ISBN: 9780815333944Publication Date: 2002-02-22
Popular Music and Queer Identity
Popular Music and the Politics of Hope: Queer and Feminist Interventions by
In today's culture, popular music is a vital site where ideas about gender and sexuality are imagined and disseminated. Popular Music and the Politics of Hope: Queer and Feminist Interventions explores what that means with a wide-ranging collection of chapters that consider the many ways in which contemporary pop music performances of gender and sexuality are politically engaged and even radical. With analyses rooted in feminist and queer thought, contributors explore music from different genres and locations, including Beyoncé's Lemonade, A Tribe Called Red's We Are the Halluci Nation, and celebrations of Vera Lynn's 100th Birthday. At a bleak moment in global politics, this collection focuses on the concept of critical hope: the chapters consider making and consuming popular music as activities that encourage individuals to imagine and work toward a better, more just world. Addressing race, class, aging, disability, and colonialism along with gender and sexuality, the authors articulate the diverse ways popular music can contribute to the collective political projects of queerness and feminism. With voices from senior and emerging scholars, this volume offers a snapshot of today's queer and feminist scholarship on popular music that is an essential read for students and scholars of music and cultural studies.
Call Number: ML3918 .P67 P664 2019ISBN: 9781138055865Publication Date: 2019-04-17
The Queer Composition of America's Sound: Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity by
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. Focusing on a talented circle that included Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Paul Bowles, David Diamond, and Ned Rorem, The Queer Composition of America's Sound homes in on the role of these artists' self-identification--especially with tonal music, French culture, and homosexuality--in the creation of a musical idiom that even today signifies "America" in commercials, movies, radio and television, and the concert hall.
Call Number: ML200.5 .H83 2004ISBN: 9780520241848Publication Date: 2004-10-18
Queering the Popular Pitch by
Queering the Popular Pitch is a new collection of 19 essays that situate queering within the discourse of sex and sexuality in relation to popular music. This investigation addresses the changing debates within gay, lesbian and queer discourse in relation to the dissemination of musical texts -performance, cultural production and sexual meaning - situating music within the broader patterns of culture that it both mirrors and actively reproduces. The collection is divided into four parts: queering borders queer spaces hidden histories queer thoughts, mixed media. Queering the Popular Pitch will appeal to students of popular music, Gay and Lesbian studies. With case studies and essays by leading popular music scholars it provides insightful discourse in a growing field of musicological research.
Call Number: ML3470 .Q44 2006ISBN: 9780415978040Publication Date: 2006-05-05
Audible Traces: Gender, Identity, and Music by
"Forum: composing women: Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner, Mary Lee Roberts, Carla Scaletti, Anna Rubin, Vivian Adelberg Rudow, Susan Parenti, Mara Helmuth, Catherine Schieve -- On musical performances of gender and sex / Suzanne G. Cusick -- Lesbian skin and musical fascination / Martha Mockus -- On Rebecca Clarke's Sonata for viola and piano: feminine spaces and metaphors of reading / Marianne Kielian-Gilbert -- Voice, race, and sexuality in the music of Joan Armatrading / Ellie M. Hisama -- Singing for myself: Carmen and the rhetoric of musical resistance / Peter J. Rabinowitz -- Redefining yin and yang: transformation of gender/sexual politics in Chinese music / Su Zheng -- Watching our step: embodying research, telling stories / Susan C. Cook -- It's raining men: the Weather Girls, gay subjectivity, and the erotics of insatiability / Mitchell Morris -- Hearing ""Lulu"" / Judy Lochhead -- The insatiable banshee: voracious vocalizing-- riot grrrl-- and the blues / Renee T. Coulombe -- Rules of one's own / Elaine Barkin -- Music/consciousness/gender / Benjamin Boretz."
Call Number: ML82 .A93 1999ISBN: 9783905323009Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Nonbinary: A Memoir by
A revealing and beautifully open memoir from pioneering industrial music artist, visual artist, and transgender icon Genesis P-Orridge--now in paperbackIn this groundbreaking book spanning decades of artistic risk-taking, the inventor of "industrial music," founder of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and world-renowned fine artist with COUM Transmissions Genesis P-Orridge (1950-2020) takes us on a journey searching for identity and their true self. It is the story of a life of creation and destruction, where Genesis P-Orridge reveals their unwillingness to be stuck--stuck in one place, in one genre, or in one gender. Nonbinary is Genesis's final work and is shared with hopes of being an inspiration to the newest generation of trailblazers and nonconformists.Nonbinary is the intimate story of Genesis's life, weaving the narrative of their history in COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle, and Psychic TV. It also covers growing up in World War II's fallout in Britain, contributing to the explosion of new music and radical art in the 1960s, and destroying visual and artistic norms throughout their entire life. In addition to being a captivating memoir of a singular artist and musician, Nonbinary is also an inside look at one of our most remarkable cultural lives that will be an inspiration to fans of industrial music, performance art, the occult, and a life in the arts.
Call Number: ML420 .P848 A3 2022ISBN: 9781419749773Publication Date: 2022-10-04
