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The queer composition of America's sound [electronic resource] : gay modernists, American music, and national identity / Nadine Hubbs.

By: Hubbs, Nadine.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004Description: xi, 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism | National music -- United States -- History and criticism | Gay composers -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 780/.86/640973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-263), discography (p. 265), and index.

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).

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.