The Queer Composition of America's Sound

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 Soundhomes 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.

Acknowledgments

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INTRODUCTION. Composing Oneself

1

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1. Modernist Abstraction and the Abstract Art: Four Saints and the Queer Composition of America's Sound

19

(45)

2. Being Musical: Gender, Sexuality, and Musical Identity in Twentieth-Century America

64

(39)

INTERMEZZO. My Dear Freddy: Identity Excesses and Evasions

chez Paul Bowles

103

(14)

3. A French Connection: Modernist Codes in the Musical Closet

117

(35)

4. Queerness, Eruption, Bursting: U.S. Musical Modernism at Midcentury

152

(23)

CODA. Composing Oneself (Reprise)

175

(4)

Notes

179

(70)

Works Cited

249

(16)

Discography

265

(2)

Index

267

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