Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity de Fuller, Sophie, and Whitesell, Lloyd (Edited by) - 2002

Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Cloth, vii, 324 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "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, repertoire, venues, and specific works, this volume explores points of intersection between music and queerness in Europe and the United States from 1870 to 1950 - a period during which dramatic changes in musical expression and in the expression of individual sexual identity played similar roles in washing away the certainties of the past." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Private performance. "Desire is consuming me": the life partnership between Eugenie Schumann and Marie Fillunger, by Eva Rieger. Ravel's way, by Lloyd Whitesell. "Devoted attention": looking for lesbian musicians in fin-de-sie`cle Britain, by Sophie Fuller -- Public appearances. "He isn't a marrying man": gender and sexuality in the repertoire of male impersonators, 1870-1930, by Gillian Rodger. Tchaikovsky and his music in Anglo-American criticism, 1890s-1950s, by Malcolm Hamrick Brown. Transcription, transgression, and the (pro)creative urge, by Ivan Raykoff. Musicology and sexuality: the example of Edward J. Dent, by Philip Brett -- Double meanings. Cross-dressing in Saint-Sae ns's Le rouet d'Omphale: ambiguities of gender and politics, by Jann Pasler. The "dark saying" of the Enigma: homoeroticism and the Elgarian paradox, by Byron Adams. "An anthology of friendship": the letters from John Ireland to Father Kenneth Thompson, by Fiona Richards -- Queer listening. Tristan's wounds: on homosexual Wagnerians at the fin-de-sie`cle, by Mitchell Morris -- When subjects don't come out, by Sherrie Tucker.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.