Listening to the Sirens: Musical Technologies of Queer Identity from Homer to Hedwig

cover......Page 1
acknowledges......Page 3
Listening to the Sirens......Page 4
ISBN......Page 5
contents......Page 7
MUSIC EXAMPLES......Page 10
acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction......Page 16
1. 
Songs of the Sirens. 
desire......Page 25
MUSICAL SELF-QUESTIONING......Page 28
Figure 1. Odysseus and the Sirens......Page 32
DIVINE MUSIC......Page 34
MUSIC EDUCATION......Page 43
QUESTIONING CHANT......Page 52
ROMANTIC LOVE AND MUSICAL SELF-INVENTION......Page 68
table 1. Rhyme sounds in Chansson do·il mot son plan 
e prim......Page 73
Example 2. Arnaut Daniel, Chanzon do·l moz son plan e prim......Page 74
FROM CONFESSION TO THE COUCH......Page 83
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE MUSICALLY INCLINED......Page 86
TCHAIKOVSKY’S MUSICAL CONFESSION......Page 93
Example 3. Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Symphony no. 6 in B mino......Page 102
BENJAMIN BRITTEN AND THE USE OF MUSIC......Page 107
Example 4. Benjamin Britten, Billy Budd, op. 50 (1951).......Page 112
Example 5. Benjamin Britten, Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac, for alto, tenor, and
piano, op. 51 (1952): “God Speaketh.”......Page 117
Example 6. Benjamin Britten, Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac, for alto, tenor, and
piano, op. 51 (1952): “Here Isaac asketh his father’s blessing on his knees.”......Page 119
CRAFT AS CONFESSION......Page 122
3. 
Queer Ears and Icons
. sign systems......Page 125
MELODRAMA......Page 129
SAPPHO AND THE MELODRAMATIC MAN......Page 130
Figure 2. Simeon Solomon, Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene, 1864. 
Watercolor on paper. Tate Gallery, London. Photo: Tate Gallery, London/
Art Resource, NY.......Page 132
JUDY GARLAND / SAPPHO REDUX......Page 134
Figure 3. Judy Garland with Barbra Streisand, The Judy Garland
Show, 1963. Photo: Gabi Rona; Motion Picture and Television Photo
Archive.......Page 135
Figure 4. Judy Garland sings “Get Happy,” from Summer Stock, 1950.......Page 140
A SISTER OF DOROTHY: MELISSA ETHERIDGE AND THE 
MELODRAMATIC LESBIAN PHALLUS......Page 146
Honest Abjection......Page 148
The Voice as Lesbian Phallus......Page 150
MADONNA: DOROTHY IN OZ......Page 158
Figure 5. Madonna, “Don’t Tell Me” video, 2000. Directed by 
Jean-Baptiste Mondino.......Page 164
4. 
Homomusical Communities. 
production......Page 167
THE BUSINESS OF WOMEN’S MUSIC......Page 178
SELLING LESBIANS......Page 181
THE POLITICS OF INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC......Page 186
PROBLEMS WITH SUCCESS......Page 188
DISCOSEXUALITY......Page 191
MAKING GAY MEN......Page 195
MIGHTY REAL MEN, AND THE QUEENS BEHIND THEM......Page 199
5. 
Flights of Fancy. 
power......Page 210
CATCHING CUCKOLDS AND HERMAPHRODITES......Page 213
Example 7. John Hilton, “Here Is an Old Ground” (1652), from The Catch Book, ed.
Paul Hillier......Page 215
Example 8. Henry Purcell, “Jack, Thou’rt a Toper” (1695), from The Catch Book, ed.
Paul Hillier.......Page 219
“THE PHOENIX OF SODOM......Page 223
Figure 6. Peter Paul Rubens, The Fall of Icarus, ca. 1636. Oil on panel.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.......Page 228
Figure 7. Anthony van Dyck, Daedalus and Icarus,
ca. 1620. Oil on canvas. Art Gallery of Ontario,
Toronto. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Wood, 1940.......Page 229
Figure 8. Andrea del Sarto, Icarus, ca. 1507. Oil 
on panel. Palazzo Davanzati, Florence. Photo: 
Alinari/Art Resource, NY.......Page 230
Figure 9. Daedalus and Icarus, Roman
marble relief. Museo di Villa Albani, Rome.
Photo: Alinari/Art Resource, NY.......Page 231
Example 9. George Frideric Handel, Tra le fiamme (1707), “Tra le fiamme,” mm. 8–15.
8......Page 236
Example 10. George Frideric Handel, Tra le fiamme (1707), “Tra le fiamme,” 
mm. 75–90.......Page 238
Example 11. George Frideric Handel, Tra le fiamme (1707), “Pien di nuovo e bel diletto,”
mm. 12–16.......Page 239
Example 12. George Frideric Handel, Tra le fiamme (1707), “Voli per l’aria chi può
volare,” mm. 38–46.......Page 240
A Sojourn to Italy: “Bohemian Rhapsody”......Page 245
Sexual Enlightenment at the “Frankenstein Place”......Page 248
Between Pleasure and Pain......Page 254
Between Male and Female......Page 261
INTRODUCTION......Page 268
CHAPTER 1......Page 271
CHAPTER 2......Page 289
CHAPTER 3......Page 296
CHAPTER 4......Page 303
CHAPTER 5......Page 311
works cited......Page 322
index......Page 348