Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity

"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.

CONTENIDO:

Introduction: Secret Passages (Sophie Fuller, Lloyd Whitesell)

Part 1. Private performance
1. "Desire is Consuming Me": The Life Partnership between Eugenie Schumann and Marie Fillunger (Eva Rieger)
2. Ravel's Way (Lloyd Whitesell)
3. "Devoted Attention": Looking for Lesbian Musicians in Fin-de-Siècle Britain (Sophie Fuller)

Part 2. Public Appearances
4. "He Isn't a Marrying Man": Gender and Sexuality in the Repertoire of Male Impersonators, 1870-1930 (Gillian Rodger)
5. Tchaikovsky and His Music in Anglo-American Criticism, 1890s-1950s (Malcolm Hamrick Brown)
6. Transcription, Transgression, and the (Pro)creative Urge (Ivan Raykoff)
7. Musicology and Sexuality: The Example of Edward J. Dent (Philip Brett)

Part 3. Double Meanings
8. Cross-Dressing in Saint-Saëns's "Le Rouet d'Omphale": Ambiguities of Gender and Politics (Jann Pasler)
9. The "Dark Saying" of the Enigma: Homoeroticism and the Elgarian Paradox (Byron Adams)
10. "An Anthology of Friendship": The Letters from John Ireland to Father Kenneth Thompson (Fiona Richards)

Part 4. Queer Listening
11. Tristan's Wounds: On Homosexual Wagnerians at the Fin de Siècle (Mitchell Morris)
12. When Subjects Don't Come Out (Sherrie Tucker)

Contributors
Index