Queering the PitchPhilip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, Gary C Thomas When the first edition of Queering the Pitch was published in early 1994, it was immediately hailed as a landmark and defining work in the new field of Gay Musicology. In light of the explosion of Gay Musicology since 1994, a new edition of Queering the Pitch is timely and needed. In this new work, the editors are including a landmark essay by Philip Brett on Gay Musicology, its history and scope. The essay itself has become a cause celebre, and this will be its first full appearance in print. Along with this new historical essay, the editors are contributing a new introduction that outlines the changes that have occurred over the last decade as Gay Musicology has grown. |
Contents
Elizabeth Wood | |
A Serious EffortNot toThink Straight | |
AConversation with Ned Rorem | |
Henry Lawess Setting of Katherine Philipss Friendship | |
Sexual Difference and the Castrato | |
On Closet Questions | |
10Eros and Orientalism in Brittens Operas | |
Philip Brett 11Queer Thoughts on Country Music and k d lang | |
One LoverComposers | |
The NewGay and Lesbian Musicology Thefirstedition appeared in 1994 with | |
Retrospective Thoughts on Musical Preferences and Meanings | |
Preface toLesbian and Gay Music | |
CONTRIBUTORS | |
Constructions of Subjectivity in Schuberts Music | |
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