Hubbs, Nadine.

The queer composition of America's sound gay modernists, American music, and national identity / [electronic resource] : Nadine Hubbs. - Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-263), discography (p. 265), and index.

Modernist abstraction and the abstract art : Four Saints and the queer composition of America's sound -- Being musical : gender, sexuality, and musical identity in twentieth-century America -- Intermezzo. My dear Freddy : identity excesses and evasions chez Paul Bowles -- A French connection : modernist codes in the musical closet -- Queerness, eruption, bursting : U.S. musical modernism at midcentury -- Coda. Composing oneself (reprise).

9780520241848 9780520937956 (electronic bk.)


Music--History and criticism.--United States--20th century
Modernism (Music)--United States.
National music--History and criticism.--United States
Gay composers--United States.

ML200.5 / .H83 2004