03341nam 22006974a 450 991045045320332120200520144314.00-520-93795-31-282-76306-71-59734-842-2978661276306910.1525/9780520937956(CKB)1000000000024229(EBL)223002(OCoLC)475926909(SSID)ssj0000231497(PQKBManifestationID)11175164(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000231497(PQKBWorkID)10207679(PQKB)11370344(StDuBDS)EDZ0000084584(MiAaPQ)EBC223002(OCoLC)56733350(MdBmJHUP)muse30484(DE-B1597)519134(DE-B1597)9780520937956(Au-PeEL)EBL223002(CaPaEBR)ebr10068555(CaONFJC)MIL276306(EXLCZ)99100000000002422920040217d2004 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe queer composition of America's sound[electronic resource] gay modernists, American music, and national identity /Nadine HubbsBerkeley University of California Pressc20041 online resource (295 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-24184-3 0-520-24185-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-263), discography (p. 265), and index.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).In this vibrant and pioneering book, Nadine Hubbs shows how a gifted group of Manhattan-based gay composers were pivotal in creating a distinctive "American sound" and in the process served as architects of modern American identity. Focusing on a talented circle that included Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Paul Bowles, David Diamond, and Ned Rorem, The Queer Composition of America's Sound homes in on the role of these artists' self-identification-especially with tonal music, French culture, and homosexuality-in the creation of a musical idiom that even today signifies "America" in commercials, movies, radio and television, and the concert hall.MusicUnited States20th centuryHistory and criticismNational musicUnited StatesHistory and criticismGay composersUnited StatesElectronic books.MusicHistory and criticism.National musicHistory and criticism.Gay composers780/.86/640973Hubbs Nadine1019802MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450453203321The queer composition of America's sound2406386UNINA