Details

Subjects:

Music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
National music -- United States -- History and criticism.
Gay composers -- United States.

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).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-263) and index.
Discography: p. 265.

ISBN:

0520241843 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520241851 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

54454565