{"product_id":"the-queer-composition-of-americas-sound-gay-modernists-american-music-and-national-identity-paperback","title":"The Queer Composition of America's Sound: Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNadine Hubbs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Queer Composition of America's Sound \u003c\/i\u003ehomes 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this remarkable book, Nadine Hubbs demonstrates that our understanding of modernist American culture will remain impoverished so long as we ignore the gay social networks and patronage and distinctly queer sensibilities and idioms that influenced (to varying degrees) the work of the great modernist composers Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Samuel Barber, Ned Rorem, and Leonard Bernstein, among others. Deeply learned, theoretically sophisticated, and powerfully argued, this is a landmark study, which is sure to inspire a new generation of work drawing together and advancing the insights of musicology, feminist and queer theory, and American cultural history.--George Chauncey, University of Chicago, author of \u003ci\u003eGay New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat does music have to do with homosexuality, or homosexuality with music? That is the question Hubbs explores through a breathtakingly original history of the mid-twentieth-century gay American composers who produced America's sound. Hubbs shows how sexual desire, aesthetic practice, and social identity shape one another and define specific forms of human consciousness. Her recovery of the homosexual roots of American musical modernism is ultimately a study in the sexuality of culture itself.--David M. Halperin, author of \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Homosexuality\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSaint Foucault\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNadine Hubbs's courageous and important book seeks both to recover the historical significance of the prewar American modernists and to confront some of the reasons behind the relegation of their work to the closet. Compellingly argued and beautifully written, \u003ci\u003eQueer Composition\u003c\/i\u003e will no doubt raise controversy, but it will be required reading for musicologists, Americanists, and queer theorists.--Susan McClary, author of \u003ci\u003eConventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHubbs's graceful, shrewd, and nuanced book is the best account yet of the queer sources of much modern American music--and American culture--and a compelling contribution to music history, gay and lesbian studies, and American studies.--Michael Sherry, History, Northwestern University, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930's \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this remarkable book, Nadine Hubbs demonstrates that our understanding of modernist American culture will remain impoverished so long as we ignore the gay social networks and patronage and distinctly queer sensibilities and idioms that influenced (to varying degrees) the work of the great modernist composers Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Samuel Barber, Ned Rorem, and Leonard Bernstein, among others. Deeply learned, theoretically sophisticated, and powerfully argued, this is a landmark study, which is sure to inspire a new generation of work drawing together and advancing the insights of musicology, feminist and queer theory, and American cultural history.--George Chauncey, University of Chicago, author of \u003ci\u003eGay New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What does music have to do with homosexuality, or homosexuality with music? That is the question Hubbs explores through a breathtakingly original history of the mid-twentieth-century gay American composers who produced \"America's sound.\" Hubbs shows how sexual desire, aesthetic practice, and social identity shape one another and define specific forms of human consciousness. Her recovery of the homosexual roots of American musical modernism is ultimately a study in the sexuality of culture itself.\"--David M. Halperin, author of \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Homosexuality\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSaint Foucault\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nadine Hubbs's courageous and important book seeks both to recover the historical significance of the prewar American modernists and to confront some of the reasons behind the relegation of their work to the closet. Compellingly argued and beautifully written, \u003ci\u003eQueer Composition\u003c\/i\u003e will no doubt raise controversy, but it will be required reading for musicologists, Americanists, and queer theorists.\"--Susan McClary, author of \u003ci\u003eConventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hubbs's graceful, shrewd, and nuanced book is the best account yet of the queer sources of much modern American music--and American culture--and a compelling contribution to music history, gay and lesbian studies, and American studies.\"--Michael Sherry, History, Northwestern University, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930's \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNadine Hubbs\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Music and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 293\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 8.98 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 18, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45424784506982,"sku":"9780520241855","price":72.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/K28xenduMzF5R2wwTm9BcS9EaUdKUT09.webp?v=1775609433","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-queer-composition-of-americas-sound-gay-modernists-american-music-and-national-identity-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}