Full Description
Music and queerness interact in many different ways. The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness brings together many topics and scholarly disciplines, reflecting the diversity of current research and methodology. Each of the book's six sections exemplifies a particular rhetoric of queer music studies. The section "Kinds of Music" explores queer interactions with specific musics such as EDM, hip hop, and country. "Versions" explores queer meanings that emerge in the creation of a version of a pre-existing text, for instance in musical settings of Biblical texts or practices of karaoke. "Voices and Sounds" turns in various ways to the materiality of music and sound. "Lives" focuses on interactions of people's lives with music and queerness. "Histories" addresses moments in the past, beginning with times when present conceptualizations of sexuality had not yet developed and moving to cases studies of more recent history, including the creation of pop songs in response to HIV/AIDS and the Eurovision song contest. The final section, "Cross-cultural Queerness," asks how to understand gender and sexuality in locations where recent Euro-American concepts may not be appropriate.
Contents
Introduction
Fred Everett Maus
Whose Refuge, This House?: The Estrangement of Queers of Color in Electronic Dance Music
Luis-Manuel Garcia
The Queer Pleasures of Musicals
Bradley Rogers
The Gospel According to the Gays: Queering the Roots of Gospel Music
E. Patrick Johnson
Queer as Trad: LGBTQ Performers and Irish Traditional Music in the United States
Tes Slominski
Gay Country, TransAmericana, and Queer Sincerity
Shana Goldin-Perschbacher
Queer Hip Hop: A Brief Historiography
Shanté Paradigm Smalls
From Queer Musicology to Indecent Theology: Liberal and Liberationist Protestant Theology and Musical Queerings of the Bible
Dirk von der Horst
Operatic Adaptations and the Representation of Non-normative Sexualities
Freya Jarman
Queer Audiovisual Creativity: Fan-Created Music Videos from Star Trek to Bad Girls
Nina Treadwell
Karaoke, Queer Theory, Queer Performance: Dedicated to José Esteban Muñoz
Karen Tongson
Free as a Bird? Thinking with the Grain of Meshell Ndegeocello's Butch Voice
Tavia Nyong'o
Transgender Passing Guides and the Vocal Performance of Gender and Sexuality
Stephan Pennington
Sound Desires: Auralism, the Sexual Fetishization of Music
Jodie Taylor
Transcripts: Toward A Queer Phenomenology of the Field Recording
Drew Daniel
Queering Brighton
Sheila Whiteley
(To) Queer: "A" Life to Music
Elizabeth Gould
Endangered Tenderness: Schubert, Chopin, and Schumann
Charles Fisk
Musical Awakenings: The Experiences of a Queer Music Therapist in the Face of HIV and AIDS
Colin Andrew Lee
Toward a Trans* Method in Musicology
Dana Baitz
Quare Times: An Introduction to a Queer Perspective on Afrofuturism and a Reading of Sun Ra>'s Space Is the Place
Tim Stüttgen
Musical Abjects: Sounds and Objectionable Sexualities
Jenny Olivia Johnson
Music in the Margins: Queerness in the Clerical Imagination, 1200-1500
Lisa Colton
The Queer History of the Castrato
Emily Wilbourne
Queering Middle Class Gender in Nineteenth-Century US Theater
Gillian Rodger
Anglophone Songs about HIV/AIDS
Matthew J. Jones
Queer Patriotism in the Eurovision Song Contest
Ivan Raykoff
Interdisciplinary Enqueeries from India: Moving Toward a Queer Ethnomusicology
Zoe Sherinian
Kunqu Cross-dressing as Artistic and/or Queer Performance
Joseph S. C. Lam
Non-ordinary Gender and Sexuality in Indonesian Performance
Henry Spiller
Out in the Undercurrents: Queer Politics in Hong Kong Popular Music
Yiu Fai Chow and Jeroen De Kloet
How to Do Things with Theory: Cultural "Transcription," "Queerness," and Ukrainian Pop
Stephen Amico
