The Queer Composition of America's Sound: Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity by Hubbs, Nadine

The Queer Composition of America's Sound: Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520241855)

Vendor: Nadine Hubbs
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$34.95
$34.95
$34.95
Subtotal: $34.95
The Queer Composition of America's Sound: Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity by Hubbs, Nadine

The Queer Composition of America's Sound: Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity

$34.95
The Queer Composition of America's Sound: Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity by Hubbs, Nadine

The Queer Composition of America's Sound: Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity

$34.95
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x
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 Sound homes 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.

Author: Nadine Hubbs
ISBN-10: 0520241851
ISBN-13: 9780520241855
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 10/18/2004
Pages: 293
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.08w x 0.77d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2005 pg. 1030
By Nadine Hubbs
By Nadine Hubbs
x
Nadine Hubbs is Associate Professor of Music and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Recently Viewed Products