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

Author/creator Hubbs, Nadine
Other author/creatorAmerican Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press,
Descriptionxi, 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Subject(s)
Music--United States --20th century --History and criticism.
Modernism (Music)--United States.
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).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 249-263), discography (p. 265), and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2004003478
ISBN0520241843 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0520241851 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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