| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 282 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index. |
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Discography: page 265. |
| Contents |
Modernist abstraction and the abstract art : Four Saints and the queer composition of America's sound -- Being musical : gender, sexuality, and musical identity in twentieth-century America -- Intermezzo. My dear Freddy : identity excesses and evasions chez Paul Bowles -- A French connection : modernist codes in the musical closet -- Queerness, eruption, bursting : U.S. musical modernism at midcentury -- Coda. Composing oneself (reprise). |
| Summary |
Hubbs shows how a group of gifted Manhattan-based gay composers were pivotal in creating a distinctive 'American sound' & in the process served as architects of modern American identity. She focuses on the circle that included Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Paul Bowles & Ned Rorem. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
National music -- United States -- History and criticism.
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National music. |
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Gay composers -- United States.
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Gay composers. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Indexed Term |
Humaniora Musik. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hubbs, Nadine. Queer composition of America's sound. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004 0520241843 0520241851 (DLC) 2004003478 (OCoLC)54454565 |
| ISBN |
9780520937956 (electronic book) |
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0520937953 (electronic book) |
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0520241843 |
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9780520241848 |
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0520241851 |
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9780520241855 |
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