| Description |
xi, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263), discography (page 265), and index. |
| 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). |
| 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. |
| ISBN |
0520241851 paperback alkaline paper |
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0520241843 cloth alkaline paper |
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