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.
Table of Contents
IntroductionFred Everett MausWhose Refuge, This House?: The Estrangement of Queers of Color in Electronic Dance MusicLuis-Manuel GarciaThe Queer Pleasures of MusicalsBradley RogersThe Gospel According to the Gays: Queering the Roots of Gospel MusicE. Patrick JohnsonQueer as Trad: LGBTQ Performers and Irish Traditional Music in the United StatesTes SlominskiGay Country, TransAmericana, and Queer SincerityShana Goldin-PerschbacherQueer Hip Hop: A Brief HistoriographyShanté Paradigm SmallsFrom Queer Musicology to Indecent Theology: Liberal and Liberationist Protestant Theology and Musical Queerings of the BibleDirk von der HorstOperatic Adaptations and the Representation of Non-normative SexualitiesFreya JarmanQueer Audiovisual Creativity: Fan-Created Music Videos from Star Trek to Bad GirlsNina TreadwellKaraoke, Queer Theory, Queer Performance: Dedicated to José Esteban MuñozKaren TongsonFree as a Bird? Thinking with the Grain of Meshell Ndegeocello's Butch VoiceTavia Nyong'oTransgender Passing Guides and the Vocal Performance of Gender and SexualityStephan PenningtonSound Desires: Auralism, the Sexual Fetishization of MusicJodie TaylorTranscripts: Toward A Queer Phenomenology of the Field RecordingDrew DanielQueering BrightonSheila Whiteley(To) Queer: "A" Life to MusicElizabeth GouldEndangered Tenderness: Schubert, Chopin, and SchumannCharles FiskMusical Awakenings: The Experiences of a Queer Music Therapist in the Face of HIV and AIDSColin Andrew LeeToward a Trans* Method in MusicologyDana BaitzQuare Times: An Introduction to a Queer Perspective on Afrofuturism and a Reading of Sun Ra's Space Is the PlaceTim StüttgenMusical Abjects: Sounds and Objectionable SexualitiesJenny Olivia JohnsonMusic in the Margins: Queerness in the Clerical Imagination, 1200-1500Lisa ColtonThe Queer History of the CastratoEmily WilbourneQueering Middle Class Gender in Nineteenth-Century US TheaterGillian RodgerAnglophone Songs about HIV/AIDSMatthew J. JonesQueer Patriotism in the Eurovision Song ContestIvan RaykoffInterdisciplinary Enqueeries from India: Moving Toward a Queer EthnomusicologyZoe SherinianKunqu Cross-dressing as Artistic and/or Queer PerformanceJoseph S. C. LamNon-ordinary Gender and Sexuality in Indonesian PerformanceHenry SpillerOut in the Undercurrents: Queer Politics in Hong Kong Popular MusicYiu Fai Chow and Jeroen De KloetHow to Do Things with Theory: Cultural "Transcription," "Queerness," and Ukrainian PopStephen Amico
