The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness (Oxford Handbooks)

Halftitle page
Title Page
Copyright page
Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
	Queerness
	Music
	Queer Music Studies Begins
	Queer Music Studies Today
	A Handbook
	Rhetorics of Music and Queerness
	Kinds of Music
	Versions
	Voices and Sounds
	Lives
	Histories
	Cross-cultural Queerness
Part I Kinds of Music
	2. Whose Refuge, This House?: The Estrangement of Queers of Color in Electronic Dance Music
		Histories
		Counterhistories
		Fetishizing Other Utopias
	3. The Queer Pleasures of Musicals
	4. The Gospel According to the Gays: Queering the Roots of Gospel Music
	5. Queer as Trad: LGBTQ+ Performers and Irish Traditional Music in the United States
		Introduction
		Coming Out
		(Homo)normativities and Family
		Tensions
		Music + Sexuality = ?
		Conclusion
	6. Gay Country, TransAmericana, and Queer Sincerity
	7. Queer Hip Hop: A Brief Historiography
		The Queer Aughts
		Locating Queerness, Locating Hip Hop
		Queer Negation, Queer Presence: Or, What Do We Mean When We Say “Black”?
		Hip Hop Fairies and Punks: “Rapper’s Delight” and Age of Consent
		Age of Consent
		The Golden Age of Queer Hip Hop
		Homohop, Queer Hip Hop, the Gay ’90s
		Rainbow Flava: The Birth of the HomoHop Movement
		Black Queer Masculinities: D/DC’s Intersections
		Hanifah Walidah: The Renaissance Artist
		A Queer Hip Hop Future
Part II Versions
	8. From Queer Musicology to Indecent Theology: Liberal and Liberationist Protestant Theology and Musical Queerings of the Bible
		Ned Rorem_ Mourning Scene
		Diamanda Galas: Plague Mass
		Georgia Harkness: Mainstream Protestant Liberalism
		Carter Heyward: Mutual Relation and the Erotic
		Marcella Althaus-Reid: Indecent Theology
		Conclusion
	9. Operatic Adaptations and the Representation of Non-normative Sexualities
		Carmens
		Deaths in Venice
	10. Queer Audiovisual Creativity: Fan-Created Music Videos from Star Trek to Bad Girls
		Introduction
		Part I: The Herstory of Vidding
		Interlude I: Vidding and Queerness
		Interlude II: Fast Forward: VCRs, Digital Video, and Femslash
		Part II: Finding the Music in Digital Vids: “Who the hell are Nikki and Helen?”
		How to Listen to a Fanvid
	11. Karaoke, Queer Theory, Queer Performance: Dedicated to José Esteban Muñoz
Part III Voices and Sounds
	12. Free as a Bird? Thinking with the Grain of Meshell Ndegeocello’s Butch Voice
	13. Transgender Passing Guides and the Vocal Performance of Gender and Sexuality
		Introduction
		Part 1: Elements of Vocal Gender Performance
		Part 2: Gendered Vocalisms in Practice
		Conclusion
	14. Sound Desires: Auralism, the Sexual Fetishization of Music
		Aural stimulation
		Sound, Seduction, and Sexualities
		Theorizing Sex and the Fetish
		Fetishizing Sound and Music
		Practicing Aural Sex
		The Queer Ear
	15. Transcripts: Toward A Queer Phenomenology of the Field Recording
		Transcript 1
		Transcript 2
		Afterword: On Phenomenology
Part IV Lives
	16. Queering Brighton
		A Brief History
		Interlude One
		Queer Imaginings
		Interlude Two
		A Contemporary Snapshot: Brighton and Hove’s Alternative Scene and Brighton Pride
	17. (To) Queer: “A” Life to Music
		“Why Are Feminists So Angry?”
		A Life
	18. Endangered Tenderness: Schubert, Chopin, and Schumann
		A Moment of Self-Discovery
		Schubert’s “Fremdlinge”
		An Alien World: Schubert’s Last Two String Quartets
		Schubert’s Elysian Quests
		Chopin’s Ambivalence
		Can It Be a Waltz?
		Chopin’s “Duets”
		Exploring the Extremes in Schumann’s Kreisleriana
		Queer—or Not?
	19. Musical Awakenings: The Experiences of a Queer Music Therapist in the Face of HIV and AIDS
		Charles: From Red to Blue
		Colin: Singing Life
		Alfredo: Running into Music
		Eddie: The Blue Guitar
		Coda
	20. Toward a Trans* Method in Musicology
		The Transsexual Woman at the Piano
		Ephemeral Performance and Enduring Bodies
		Musical and Sexual Materials
		Materiality and Fluidity Together
		Future Directions
	21. Quare Times: An Introduction to a Queer Perspective on Afrofuturism and a Reading of Sun Ra’s Space Is the Place
		Afrofuturism_ Genealogical Notes
		Afro American to Alien, Slaveship to Spaceship
		Black Atlantic, Beyond Nation
		The Subversion of the Black Entertainer
		Duel with the Overseer: Against the Black Macho
		Quaring the Community: Beyond Black Authenticity
		Dixie Music: Bound to the Past?
		The Present is not Enough: Futures of the Quare Performative
		The Arkestra: Sonic Ecstasy
		Collective Improvisation
		Quare Assemblage Production
		A Note on Editing
	22. Musical Abjects: Sounds and Objectionable Sexualities
Part V Histories
	23. Music in the Margins: Queerness in the Clerical Imagination, 1200–1500
		What was Queer in the Middle Ages?
		Musical Queerness and Transgression
		Queering the Musical Body: Sensual and Musical Pleasures in Marginalia
		Clerical Masculinities
	24. The Queer History of the Castrato
		First: A Definition
		Second: The Castrato’s Queer History
		Third: The Historical Queerness of the Castrato
	25. Queering Middle Class Gender in Nineteenth-Century US Theater
		European Antecedents of US Female Impersonation
		European Antecedents of US Male Impersonation
		Trangressive Female Performance in the United States
		Twentieth-Century Decline of Cross Dressing in US Entertainment
	26. Anglophone Songs about HIV/AIDS
		Introduction
		Uses of Extant Music in the Context of AIDS
		Elegies
		Protest Songs
		Pedagogical Songs
		Confessional Songs
		Songs in Bad Taste
		Conclusion: Hearing AIDS
	27. Queer Patriotism in the Eurovision Song Contest
Part VI Cross-cultural Queerness
	28. Interdisciplinary Enqueeries from India: Moving Toward a Queer Ethnomusicology
		Guidelines for Ethnomusicological Enqueery
		Enqueering Performance in South Asia: History and Context
		Hijra Performance
		Mahaprasad
		Conclusion
	29. Kunqu Cross-dressing as Artistic and/or Queer Performance
		Kunqu Cross-dressing in Contemporary China
		Historicizing Kunqu Cross-dressing
		Theorizing Kunqu Cross-dressing
		Queering Kunqu Cross-dressing Performance
		Concluding Remarks
	30. Non-ordinary Gender and Sexuality in Indonesian Performance
		Indonesian Performances in the Western Imaginary
		Indonesian Performances Involving Nonnormative Gender Roles and Sexualities
		Ritual Specialists
		Theatrical Gender-Bending
		Modern Gender Subjectivities and Performance
		Conclusions
	31. Out in the Undercurrents Queer Politics in Hong Kong Popular Music
		Introduction
		On Tongzhi and Ku’er
		On the Year of Coming Out
		After the Surprise
	32. How to Do Things with Theory: Cultural “Transcription,” “Queerness,” and Ukrainian Pop
		Iconoclastic, Cornflake-Loving Aliens: Kamon!!!’s Audiovisual Product-Practice
		Sameness, Difference, and the Hegemony of “Transcription”
		Identity, Star Date 2016
Index