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Print Price: $165.00

Format:
Hardback
744 pp.
6.75" x 9.75"

ISBN-13:
9780199793525

Publication date:
February 2022

Imprint: OUP US


The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness

Edited by Fred Everett Maus, Sheila Whiteley, With Tavia Nyong'o and Zoe Sherinian

Series : Oxford Handbooks

Music and queerness interact in many different ways. The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness brings together many topics and scholarly disciplines, reflecting the diversity of current research and methodology. Each of the book's six sections exemplifies a particular rhetoric of queer music studies. The section "Kinds of Music" explores queer interactions with specific musics such as EDM, hip hop, and country. "Versions" explores queer meanings that emerge in the creation of a version of a pre-existing text, for instance in musical settings of Biblical texts or practices of karaoke. "Voices and Sounds" turns in various ways to the materiality of music and sound. "Lives" focuses on interactions of people's lives with music and queerness. "Histories" addresses moments in the past, beginning with times when present conceptualizations of sexuality had not yet developed and moving to cases studies of more recent history, including the creation of pop songs in response to HIV/AIDS and the Eurovision song contest. The final section, "Cross-cultural Queerness," asks how to understand gender and sexuality in locations where recent Euro-American concepts may not be appropriate.

Readership : Students, scholars, and general readers interested in queer theory, cultural studies, queer musicology, gender studies, and music and popular culture.

Introduction
Fred Everett Maus

Whose Refuge, This House?: The Estrangement of Queers of Color in Electronic Dance Music
Luis-Manuel Garcia

The Queer Pleasures of Musicals
Bradley Rogers

The Gospel According to the Gays: Queering the Roots of Gospel Music
E. Patrick Johnson

Queer as Trad: LGBTQ Performers and Irish Traditional Music in the United States
Tes Slominski

Gay Country, TransAmericana, and Queer Sincerity
Shana Goldin-Perschbacher

Queer Hip Hop: A Brief Historiography
Shanté Paradigm Smalls

From Queer Musicology to Indecent Theology: Liberal and Liberationist Protestant Theology and Musical Queerings of the Bible
Dirk von der Horst

Operatic Adaptations and the Representation of Non-normative Sexualities
Freya Jarman

Queer Audiovisual Creativity: Fan-Created Music Videos from Star Trek to Bad Girls
Nina Treadwell

Karaoke, Queer Theory, Queer Performance: Dedicated to José Esteban Muñoz
Karen Tongson

Free as a Bird? Thinking with the Grain of Meshell Ndegeocello's Butch Voice
Tavia Nyong'o

Transgender Passing Guides and the Vocal Performance of Gender and Sexuality
Stephan Pennington

Sound Desires: Auralism, the Sexual Fetishization of Music
Jodie Taylor

Transcripts: Toward A Queer Phenomenology of the Field Recording
Drew Daniel

Queering Brighton
Sheila Whiteley

(To) Queer: "A" Life to Music
Elizabeth Gould

Endangered Tenderness: Schubert, Chopin, and Schumann
Charles Fisk

Musical Awakenings: The Experiences of a Queer Music Therapist in the Face of HIV and AIDS
Colin Andrew Lee

Toward a Trans* Method in Musicology
Dana Baitz

Quare Times: An Introduction to a Queer Perspective on Afrofuturism and a Reading of Sun Ra>'s Space Is the Place
Tim Stüttgen

Musical Abjects: Sounds and Objectionable Sexualities
Jenny Olivia Johnson

Music in the Margins: Queerness in the Clerical Imagination, 1200-1500
Lisa Colton

The Queer History of the Castrato
Emily Wilbourne

Queering Middle Class Gender in Nineteenth-Century US Theater
Gillian Rodger

Anglophone Songs about HIV/AIDS
Matthew J. Jones

Queer Patriotism in the Eurovision Song Contest
Ivan Raykoff

Interdisciplinary Enqueeries from India: Moving Toward a Queer Ethnomusicology
Zoe Sherinian

Kunqu Cross-dressing as Artistic and/or Queer Performance
Joseph S. C. Lam

Non-ordinary Gender and Sexuality in Indonesian Performance
Henry Spiller

Out in the Undercurrents: Queer Politics in Hong Kong Popular Music
Yiu Fai Chow and Jeroen De Kloet

How to Do Things with Theory: Cultural "Transcription," "Queerness," and Ukrainian Pop
Stephen Amico

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Fred Everett Maus is Director of Undergraduate Programs for Music and Associate Professor at the University of Virginia. He was a founding member of the editorial board of the journal Women and Music.

Sheila Whiteley was Professsor Emeritus of Music at the University of Salford. She wrote, edited, or co-edited several books, including Women and Popular Music: Popular Music and Gender (2000), Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender (1996), and Queering the Popular Pitch (2006).

Tavia Nyong'o is Chair and Professor of Theater & Performance Studies, Professor of American Studies, and Professor of African-American Studies at Yale University. He is author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (2009) and Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (2018)

Zoe Sherinian is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Division Chair at the University of Oklahoma. She is author of Tamil Folk Music as Dalit Liberation Theology (2014).

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Special Features

  • Speaks to the ways in which music serves as a social force in queer communities.
  • Includes perspectives on a range of genres and performance styles from across the globe.
  • Highlights potential for future development and collaboration.